Aid for Trade: What Have We Learnt? Which Way Ahead?

Olivier Cadot, Jaime de Melo 16 June 2014

The Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative has been successful in mobilising funding to aid developing countries – in particular, the least developed – cope with the cost of implementing Uruguay Round commitments. However, whether the aid has really made a difference in their ability to take part in world trade growth remains unclear. This CEPR Press book shows how the wealth of available methods helps to confront the conceptual and measurement difficulties in identifying causal relationships from interventions to outcomes.

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Contents

Acknowledgments vi

About the Authors x

Acronyms and Abbreviations xii

Foreword xv

1 Aid for Trade: Looking Ahead 1
Olivier Cadot and Jaime de Melo

2 Evaluation in Aid for Trade: From Case Study Counting to Measuring 11
Olivier Cadot and Jaime de Melo

3 Aid for Trade: What can we Learn from the Case Studies? 73
Richard Newfarmer

4 Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies and their Updates under the Enhanced Integrated Framework – A Retrospective 103
Paul Brenton and Ian Gillson

Olivier Cadot

Professor, International Economics; and Director, Institute of Applied Economics, University of Lausanne

Jaime de Melo

Senior Fellow, FERDI; Emeritus professor, University of Geneva; CEPR Research Fellow

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