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Has the WTO’s Aid for Trade Initiative Delivered on Its Promise of Greater Mobilization of Development Aid in Favor of the Trade Sector in Developing Countries?

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  • Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

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In 2005, the Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) launched the Aid for Trade (AfT) Initiative, with a view of mobilizing higher development aid in order to promote developing countries’ trade. This article assesses whether the WTO has reached its objective, more than 10 years after the launch of this initiative. Using an unbalanced panel dataset of 102 developing countries over the period of 2002 to 2016, and various AfT share variables, the empirical analysis has shown that the WTO has genuinely delivered on its promise of mobilizing higher Aid for Trade flows for developing countries.

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  • Sèna Kimm Gnangnon, 2019. "Has the WTO’s Aid for Trade Initiative Delivered on Its Promise of Greater Mobilization of Development Aid in Favor of the Trade Sector in Developing Countries?," The International Trade Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(6), pages 519-541, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:uitjxx:v:33:y:2019:i:6:p:519-541
    DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2019.1614499
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    1. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2020. "Tariff Volatility and Tariff Policy in Developed and Developing Countries," EconStor Preprints 223302, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    2. Seungyeon Moon & Heesang Lee, 2020. "The Role of Standards-Related Capacity Building on the Sustainable Development of Developing Countries: Focusing on the Korea’s Standards-Related AfT Case in Bolivia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-16, June.
    3. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2022. "Duration of the Membership in the World Trade Organization and Aid for Trade Flows," EconStor Preprints 260562, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    4. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2020. "Aid for Trade and Services Export Diversification in Recipient-Countries," EconStor Preprints 210467, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    5. Sèna K. Gnangnon, 2021. "Aid for Trade and services export diversification in recipient countries," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(2), pages 189-225, June.
    6. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2022. "Effect of Aid for Trade flows on the Accession to the World Trade Organization," EconStor Preprints 261331, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    7. Sena Kimm Gnangnon, 2023. "Duration of the Membership in the World Trade Organization and Aid for Trade Flows," Economies, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-28, June.
    8. Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm, 2020. "Aid for Trade, Export Product Diversification and Import Product Diversification," EconStor Preprints 223021, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

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