5 December 2007: Can aid fix trade? The new Aid for Trade agenda - Resources

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AFT Documents

 

ADB (Asian Development Bank)

Aid for Trade: how Asian Development Bank can help, 2007

 

ACP

Aid for trade for Tanzania: case study, Amanda Sunassee Lam

The realities of the EC “Aid for Trade” support in Bostwana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland, Lessons for the EPA negotiations

 

AFRICAN UNION

AU Commission’s proposal on the WTO “Aid for Trade” initiative

 

AITIC

AfT Documents Webpage

 

ATPC

U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) Work in progress n. 4, ‘Trade Facilitation to integrate Africa into the World Economy’, September 2004

 

CHRISTAIN AID

‘The opportunities and risks of Aid for Trade’, 2006

 

COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT

Report on Aid for Trade, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, 2006

 

CRNM

Aid for trade: a Caribbean Perspective. A study by Dr. Elizabeth Parsan, May 2006

 

ECDPM

J. Frederiksen and F. Rampa, ‘New EU Aid for Trade strategy: a window of opportunity?’, forthcoming in Trade Negotiations Insights, vol. 6, n. 8, December 2007

Discussion Paper n. 80, ‘Aid for Trade: twenty lessons from existing aid schemes’, South Centre and ECDPM, September 2007

‘Aid for Trade and the Post-Washington confusion’, Arne Melchior, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, December 2006

 

EU

‘EU Strategy on Aid for Trade: Enhancing EU support for trade-related needs in developing countries’ – Conclusions of the EU Council, doc. 14470/07, 15 October 2007

Council agrees EU strategy on aid for trade, Press Release, 15 October 2007

Aid for Trade - Conclusions of the EU Council, doc. 14018/06, 16 October 2006

Aid for trade – Conclusions of the EU Council, doc. 9555/07, 15 May 2007

European Commission, ‘Towards an EU Aid for Trade strategy – the Commission's contribution Towards an EU Aid for Trade Strategy’, doc. COM (2007) 163 final

European Research Office, The Experience of EC Provided EPA Related Adjustment Support: the Reality of EC “Aid For Trade” Support in the BLNS - Overview of the Experience and Major Lessons, 2006

 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Committee on Development, Opinion for the Committee on International Trade on the EU's Aid for Trade, 7 November 2006

Committee on International Trade, Working document on "The EU's Aid for Trade”, Rapporteur: David Martin, 11 January 2007

FAIR TRADE ADVOCACY OFFICE

Aid for Trade: another missed opportunity to make trade work for development?, April 2007

 

ICCO

Aid for Trade debate- Moving beyond “Business as usual”

 

ICTSD

R. Tiemoko, ‘Aid for Trade and Africa’, Trade Negotiations Insights vol. 6, n. 7, November 2007, p. 8

Comparative Table of Recommendations, Proposals and Views on Aid for Trade, 2006

 

IGTN (International Gender and Policy Network)

‘The Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade: Finding the Policy Link’, International Gender and Trade Network

 

ILEAP (International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty)

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief n.16, ‘Aid for trade: a new issue at the WTO, January 2007

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief n. 12, Regional Aid for Trade, January 2007

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief n. 15, Scale and Types of Funds for Aid for Trade, January 2007

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief No. 14: Financing International Public Goods A Framework to Address Aid for Trade

ILEAP-JEICP, Background Brief n. 12,"Aid For Trade" Facility: Lessons From The Tanzanian Experience On Trade Related Assistance, August 2006

ILEAP-JEICP, Background Brief n. 10, Aid for Trade - How we got here Where we might go, May 2006

ILEAP-JEICP, Background Brief n. 11, Operational Modalities for the Aid for Trade Initiative, May 2006

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief n. 11, An African Perspective on Aid for Trade, April 2006

ILEAP-JEICP, Background Brief n. 9, The financial architecture of Aid for Trade, april 2006

ILEAP-JEICP, Negotiation Advisory Brief No. 10: Aid for Trade - Why and How?, December 2005

 

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Aid for Trade. The Inter-American Development Bank experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, May 2006

 

ITC (International Trade Centre)

‘Aid for Trade: a wider scope’, Interview with M. Horn – Chair of WTO Task Force on Aid for Trade, 2006

Countries bring trade into development projects, M. Harrington – Millennium Challenge Corporation, 2007

Aid for Trade Main Webpage

 

OECD

OECD work on Aid for Trade Webpage

‘The Development Dimension. Aid for Trade: Making it effective’, 2006

OECD-DAC Donor Questionnaire on Aid for Trade, 2007

OECD-DAC Partner Country Questionnaire on Aid for Trade, 2007

Trade Related Assistance: What do Recent Evaluations Tell Us?, 2006

 

ODI

ODI project on Aid for Trade

Views on Aid for Trade by Various Multilateral Organizations, Regional Agencies, and member states, 2006

ODI Opinions, Aid for Trade: What does it mean? Why should aid be part of WTO negotiations? And how much might it cost?, 2005

ODI Background Briefing, Aid for Trade: one year on

House of Commons, UK, Committee on European Scrutiny, Report on the European Commission Communication: Towards an EU Aid for Trade strategy — the Commission's contribution

ODI reaport, Forthcoming changes in the EU Banana/sugar markets: a menu of options for an effective EU transitional package

 

SOUTH CENTRE

Aid for trade and financial assistance to implement the EPAs, May 2007

Elements for the architecture of Aid for Trade, April 2006

'Aid For Trade' initiative in need of a definitive structure, October 2006

 

UNCTAD

Erosion of trade preferences in the post-Hong Kong framework: From ´Trade is Better than Aid´ to ´Aid for Trade´, December 2007

S. Laird, ‘Aid for Trade: cool aid or kool-aid?', UNCTAD G-24 Discussion Paper Series n. 45, November 2007

S. Page, ‘The potential impact of the Aid for Trade Initiative’, UNCTAD G-24 Discussion Paper Series n. 45, April 2007

 

UNECA – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Mobilising Aid for Trade- Focus Africa

Africa Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) Webpage

 

WORLD BANK

Aid for Trade, J. Nielson

World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Aid for Trade: harnessing the global economy for economic development, 2007

World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade, 2005

 

WTO [All WTO official documents can be found on the WTO Websites > Documents Online gateway, by using the Document symbol]

Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Africa. Report and Reccomendations (November 2007)

Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Asia and the Pacific. Report and Reccomendations (November 2007)

Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus Latin American and the Caribbean. Report and Reccomendations (November 2007)

WTO and OECD, Aid for Trade at a glance 2007: 1st Global Review

WTO and OECD, Aid for Trade at a Glance 2007: Country & Agency Chapters

Reccomendations of the Task Force on Aid for Trade’, doc. WT/AFT/1, 27 July 2006

Annexes Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

Joint WTO/OECD Trade Capacity Building Database

Paragraph 57 of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration

Communication from Mauritius on behalf of the ACP Group, ACP Concept Paper on Aid for trade, doc. WT/AFT/W/8, 4 May 2006

Communication from Benin on behalf of the African Group, Concept paper – African perspective on aid for Trade: Scope and gaps, doc. WT/AFT/W/21, 21 June 2006

Communication from Zambia on behalf of the LDC Group, Aid for Trade – an LDC perspective, doc. WT/AFT/W/22, 29 June 2006

 

OTHERS

A. Melchior, Aid for Trade and the Post-Washington confusion, December 2006

 

 

 

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