Aid for Trade: Do Those Countries that Need it, Get it?

Gamberoni, Elisa; Newfarmer, Richard

doi:10.1111/twec.12139

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“…They also find that on average, countries with a better quality legal system, lower logistic performance and lower GDP per capita received a greater amount of AfT as a share of GDP. Using data for the period 2007-10, Gamberoni and Newfarmer (2014) confirm their earlier findings. Tadasse and Fayissa (2009) examine the determinants of the allocation of US AfT to 54 countries during 1999-2005 and find that donor (US) self-interest outweighs the needs of recipients.…”

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Do Developing‐country WTO Members Receive More Aid for Trade (AfT)?

Lee

Park²,

Shin

2015

World Economy

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Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations started in 2001, the importance of aid for trade (AfT) has been well recognised as a useful tool for facilitating trade, economic growth and social development in developing countries. At the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December 2005, the ‘AfT initiative’ was launched and many high‐income member countries pledged to increase their AfT contributions, particularly for the least developed member countries (LDC). This paper aims to assess whether and to what extent the WTO's developing member countries have received more AfT. For this purpose, a system generalised method of moments is applied to a sample of 118 recipient countries for the period 2001–10. We find evidence that while LDC WTO members on average receive relatively more AfT than other developing countries, the difference has not increased since launch of the AfT initiative. Among the three categories of AfT, the positive WTO membership effect for LDC members increased for building productive capacity and for trade policy and regulation, but declined for infrastructure.

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Do Developing‐country WTO Members Receive More Aid for Trade (AfT)?

Lee

Park²,

Shin

2015

World Economy

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“…Some other researchers have assessed how the AfT has been allocated (e.g. Gamberoni & Newfarmer, ; Lee, Park, & Shin, ).…”

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Effects of aid for trade on extensive and intensive margins of greenfield FDI

Ly‐My

Lee

2019

World Economy

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Using a panel dataset of 105 developing countries for the period 2003–15, this paper assesses the effects of Aid for Trade (AfT) on greenfield FDI flows to the aid‐recipient countries. Particularly, this paper classifies the total dollar value of greenfield FDI flows to each recipient country in terms of four different layers: the extensive and intensive margins of projects as well as the extensive and intensive margins of source countries. Applying the system GMM estimator, this paper finds that AfT not only increases the dollar value of FDI flows to the recipient countries but also helps diversify the greenfield projects and source countries. In addition, this paper finds that AfT has a greater effect for greenfield FDI from donor (developed) countries than from non‐donor (developing) countries. Among the three components of AfT, aid for trade‐related infrastructure and aid for trade policy regulations are found to have positive links with greenfield FDI, irrespective of source‐country groups, yet their effects are larger for developed source countries. In contrast, aid for building productive capacity hinders greenfield FDI flows from non‐donor countries, while it promotes greenfield FDI from donor countries. We offer some explanations for this finding.

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“…The literature on the macroeconomic determinants of AfT provided to developing countries (e.g. Bandyopadhyay and Younas, 2009;Gamberoni and Newfarmer, 2009;Tadasse Fayissa, 2009;Gamberoni and Newfarmer, 2014;Lee et al, 2015;Gnangnon, 2016aGnangnon, , 2016b has highlighted a number of important macroeconomic characteristics of AfT recipient countries that determine the amount of AfT that accrues to these countries. In this analysis, we focus on those factors that would influence the effect of our variable of interest, namely recipient-countries' financial openness on their AfT inflows.…”

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“…A number of studies (e.g. Gamberoni and Newfarmer, 2009;Tadasse and Fayissa, 2009;Gamberoni and Newfarmer, 2014;Lee et al, 2015;Gnangnon, 2016aGnangnon, , 2016b) have been carried out on the macroeconomic determinants of Aid for Trade (AfT). The AfT Initiative was born in the World Trade Organization (WTO), in particular at the 2005 WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference (Trade Ministers Conference).…”

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Financial Openness and Aid for Trade in Developing Countries

Gnangnon¹

2018

South African J Economics

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This article examines the effect of De Jure financial openness in developing countries on the total amount of bilateral AfT inflows that accrues to these countries. The analysis relies on 126 countries over the period 1995–2015 and uses both the within fixed effects and the two‐step system GMM estimators. Results suggest that the effect of financial openness on AfT depends on the level of financial openness, whose values range between 0 and 100. A positive and significant effect is obtained for levels of financial openness lower than the value 48. In contrast, the effect becomes negative for countries whose level of financial openness is higher than 62. Countries whose degree of financial openness is comprised between 48 and 62 experience no significant effect of financial openness on the amount of the AfT flows that they receive. Overall, the analysis shows that financial openness does matter for the amount of AfT that recipient‐countries receive from donor‐countries.

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Aid for Trade: Do Those Countries that Need it, Get it?

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Do Developing‐country WTO Members Receive More Aid for Trade (AfT)?

Do Developing‐country WTO Members Receive More Aid for Trade (AfT)?

Effects of aid for trade on extensive and intensive margins of greenfield FDI

Financial Openness and Aid for Trade in Developing Countries

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