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Aid for Trade: Cool Aid or Kool-Aid?

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Sam LAIRD
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Aid for Trade may alleviate some fears by developing countries about the social cost of trade reforms and hence help de-block the WTO negotiations. It may also help address critical supply-side issues and contribute to the achievement of the MDGs. However, there is wide divergence in views what is covered, what should be supported and how. There are concerns among developing countries that, despite promises, aid for trade may simply be a redistribution of existing funds, that it may not address development priorities, and that arduous, new conditions will be attached. For these reasons, developing countries that might be expected to have welcomed the possibility of aid for trade, have looked with some suspicion at the proposals, regarding aid for trade more as Kool-Aid, rather than cool aid!

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Paper provided by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in its series G-24 Discussion Papers with number 48.

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  1. Santiago Fernandez de Córdoba & Sam Laird & David Vanzetti, 2005. "Trick or Treat? Development Opportunities and Challenges in the WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs," The World Economy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 28(10), pages 1375-1400, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Hans P. Lankes & Azim M. Sadikov & Jean-Jacques Hallaert & Dustin Smith & Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, 2006. "Fiscal Implications of Multilateral Tariff Cuts," IMF Working Papers 06/203, International Monetary Fund. [Downloadable!]
  3. Douglas C. Lippoldt & Przemyslaw Kowalski, 2005. "Trade Preference Erosion: Potential Economic Impacts," OECD Trade Policy Working Papers 17, OECD, Trade Directorate. [Downloadable!]
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