Has Aid for Trade Increased Recipient Exports? The Impact of US AfT Allocations 1999-2008

This paper assesses the impact of the tariffs faced by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) donors’ exports on their supply of Aid for Trade (AfT). The analysis is conducted on the basis of both a donor/year framework and a bilateral donor–recipient framework over the period 2002–2009. Results suggest that donors as a whole could reduce AfT budget supply when they face higher tariffs on their exports. However, low-income and lower-middle-income countries appear to be protected by donors from AfT decline, even if they impose higher tariffs on donors’ exports. Further multilateral tariff liberalization would certainly be conducive to higher AfT.

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Has the New Aid for Trade Agenda been Export Effective? Evidence on the Impact of US AfT Allocations 1999-20081

International Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1111/isqu.12027 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 163-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

David H. Bearce ◽

Steven E. Finkel ◽

Anibal S. Pérez-Liñán ◽

Juan Rodríguez-Zepeda ◽

Lena Surzhko-Harned

Keyword(s):

Aid For Trade ◽

The Impact

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Multilateral Trade Liberalization, Export Share in the International Trade Market and Aid for Trade

Journal of International Commerce Economics and Policy ◽

10.1142/s1793993317500144 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 08 (03) ◽

pp. 1750014 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Trade Policy ◽

Trade Liberalization ◽

Export Share ◽

Multilateral Trade ◽

Aid For Trade ◽

Multilateral Trade Liberalization ◽

Macroeconomic Determinants ◽

The Impact ◽

Trade Market

This paper adds to the existing literature on the macroeconomic determinants of Aid for Trade (AfT). It investigates the impact of both multilateral trade policy liberalization and the export share of AfT-recipient countries in global trade market on the AfT amounts that accrue to these countries. Using a panel dataset comprising 133 AfT-recipient-countries, over the period 1995–2015, the empirical analysis shows that both the impact of multilateral trade policy liberalization and of the recipient countries’ export share in the world trade market on AfT depend on recipient-countries’ level of development as well as on their domestic trade policy. Additionally, in the context of multilateral trade liberalization, donors tend to reward recipient-countries’ effort to secure a higher export share in the international trade market.

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TRADE POLICY SPACE AND EXPORT PRODUCT DIVERSIFICATION

The Singapore Economic Review ◽

10.1142/s0217590820500575 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (06) ◽

pp. 1727-1752

Author(s):

SÈNA KIMM GNANGNON

Keyword(s):

Trade Policy ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Quantitative Measure ◽

Product Diversification ◽

Policy Space ◽

Aid For Trade ◽

The Impact ◽

Positive Effect ◽

Export Product ◽

Export Product Diversification

This paper provides a quantitative measure of the concept of trade policy space, at the macroeconomic level, and examines its impact on export product diversification. Trade policy space has been defined as the room of manoeuvre available to a government once its current trade policy is depurated from the impact of structural domestic and international factors. The analysis has been carried out using an unbalanced panel dataset comprising 165 countries (both developed and developing countries) over the period 2002–2015. Results suggest that trade policy space is positively associated with export product diversification, and the higher countries’ development level, the greater is the magnitude of the positive effect of trade policy space on export product diversification. The analysis further shows for recipient-countries of Aid for Trade (AfT) flows that trade policy space is complementary with AfT inflows in inducing export product diversification. In particular, the higher the amounts of AfT inflows that accrue to these countries, the greater is the positive impact of trade policy space on export product diversification in AfT recipient-countries.

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