Global Aid for Trade Review side event: Aid for Trade effectiveness – current issues and future directions
Facilitator- Dr Cyrus Rustomjee (Commonwealth Secretariat)
Impressions from the book-
Dr Mohammad Razzaque (Commonwealth Secretariat)– effectiveness of AfT in econometric studies
Dr Yurendra Basnett (ODI) – effectiveness of AfT at country level
Dr Dirk Willem te Velde (ODI) – effective AfT in the future (“third generation” AfT)
Commentators-
Frans Lammersen (OECD)
Sheila Page (ODI)
Luciana Mermet (UNDP)
Description
This side event at the World Trade Organization's Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade brought together a range of contributions to an ODI-COMSEC volume on Aid for Trade (AfT), Aid for Trade effectiveness – current issues and future directions, and featured presentations and facilitated discussions on empirical evidence on the effectiveness of AfT; on AfT and global value chains; and on future directions on AfT.