Aid for trade: making it effective

The 2005 Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Declaration calls for the expansion of aid-for-trade to help developing countries benefit from WTO agreements and more broadly expand their trade. It is within this mandate that the WTO has asked the OECD to contribute to these efforts, and in particular to examine the following three issues: i) how much aid do donors already provide in support of trade; ii) how effective are these programmes; and, iii) how to make aid-for-trade an effective tool for helping developing countries, particularly LDCs, to fully benefit from trade liberalisation and WTO agreements.

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