Recommended reading
Recommended reading Doha and developing countries
- Scaling up aid for trade: how to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty
- ( Oxfam , 2005)
- The notion of aid for trade covers many different types of intervention other than simply the distribution of money and goods. These include capacity and infrastructural-building initiatives, such as ...
- Policy responses to preference erosion: from trade as aid to aid for trade
- ( S. Prowse; B. Hoekman / Department for International Development, UK , 2005)
- A large number of non-reciprocal preferential access schemes have been put in place by OECD countries, in addition to an ever-expanding set of reciprocal bilateral and regional trade liberalization ar...
- EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity
- ( C. Stevens; J. Kennan / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2005)
- This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS. It notes that the claim that EPAs will automatically result in African, Caribbean and Paci...
- Harnessing trade for development: benefiting from market access opportunities
- ( id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2005)
- In the light of the upcoming 2005 ministerial meeting of the Doha round, this issue of id21 insights examines what developed and developing countries can do to generate the highest payoffs from trade ...
- Trade preference erosion: expanded assessment of countries at risk of welfare losses
- ( D. Lippoldt; P. Kowalski / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2005)
- This paper assesses the situation of the preference-reliant countries seen as being most at risk of experiencing negative welfare effects from preference erosion as a consequence of multilateral tarif...
- From development to naked self-interest: the Doha Development Round has lost its way
- ( Oxfam , 2005)
- This brief argues that instead of promoting the integration of developing countries in the world trading system, the Development Round’ has been turned on its head: the focus has shifted from the deve...
- 'Aid For Trade' initiative in need of a definitive structure
- ( South Centre , 2006)
- What are the next steps that need to be taken as interest in the Aid for Trade (AFT) agenda gathers steam? This short article argues that it is of fundamental importance that the AFT mechanism itself ...
- Can aid fix trade?: assessing the WTO’s aid for trade agenda
- ( C. Smaller / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy , 2006)
- This report summarises the Aid for Trade debate within the context of the WTO and highlights important questions that remain unanswered by WTO members including: is Aid for Trade a consolation...
- The Doha Development Agenda and aid for trade: finding the policy link
- ( M. Iorio / International Gender and Trade Network , 2006)
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This paper argues that Aid for Trade can contribute to poverty alleviation and development but the international community should be realistic about what increased trade alone can achieve.
Through a...
- Aid for trade for Tanzania: case study
- ( International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty , 2005)
- This document considers whether a focus on aid for trade is the best way forward for Tanzania. The authors consider how best to channel aid for trade in the country and consider key instruments, trade...
- Aid for trade: making it effective
- ( M. Garcia; F. Lammersen; M. Hayashikawa / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2006)
- This OECD report deals with the issue of how to effectively operationalise Aid-for-Trade, including how to developing effective mechanisms for appropriately deliver additional financial resources thro...
