Where to Spend the Next Million? Applying Impact Evaluation to Trade Assistance

Trade policy has changed fundamentally since the days of structural adjustment and economy-wide trade reforms. Partly in reaction to the uneven results of trade policy reforms, the focus has shifted to more targeted interventions aimed at reducing trade costs and addressing market failures that inhibit exports. Significant national resources and international assistance are now devoted to trade facilitation and export promotion, and the international development community has galvanized around a new 'aid-for-trade' (AfT) mantra as a means of helping low-income countries integrate into the global economy. The rest of this chapter is organized as follows: in section two the report discusses the changing nature of trade policy. In section three the report reviews the available evidence on the impact of trade assistance. In section four the report considers a detailed menu of trade-related interventions and discusses the challenges to their evaluation. In section five the report addresses the data issues crucial to impact evaluation. Finally, in section six the report look at the future challenges to doing Independent Evaluation (IE) in trade assistance.

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Main Authors: Cadot, Olivier, Fernandes, Ana M., Gourdon, Julien, Mattoo, Aaditya
Format: Publication biblioteca
Language:en_US
Published: London: Centre for Economic Policy Research and the World Bank 2011
Subjects:aggregate exports, agriculture, apparel, applied tariff, asymmetric information, average tariffs, Bank lending, bankruptcy, barriers to trade, benchmarking, bilateral trade, bilateral trade agreements, budget constraints, budgetary support, business environment, capacity building, choice of transport, comparative advantage, consumers, cost effectiveness, Customs, customs brokers, customs clearance, customs offices, customs officials, customs revenue, debt, developing countries, development assistance, development policy, diminishing returns, econometrics, economic activity, Economic development, economic growth, Economic Policy, economic rate of return, economic research, economics, economics research, economists, empirical evidence, environmental, environments, expenditures, export assistance, export basket, export capacity, export certification, Export credit, Export credit guarantee, Export credit insurance, export finance, export growth, export incentives, export markets, Export Performance, export processing, export processing zones, export promotion, export promotion agencies, export supply, export support, export value, export-processing zone, exporters, Exports, factor endowments, financial crisis, financial incentives, fishing, fixed costs, foreign markets, foreign trade, forestry, GDP, GDP per capita, gravity equation, gross domestic product, growth rate, Impact of Trade, import duty, import quotas, imports, income, industrial policies, industrial policy, infrastructures, inspection, interest rate, international markets, international trade, less developed countries, Lotteries, market access, market failures, market share, market size, metals, national treatment, non-tariff barriers, oil, oil imports, per capita income, perverse incentives, positive effects, present value, producers, product markets, quantitative restrictions, rail, Railway, railway network, railways, regional integration, regression analysis, resource management, retail trade, Road, Road network, road transport, Roads, route, sourcing, speeds, stricter enforcement, structural adjustment, structural change, tariff barriers, tariff data, tariff revenue, tax, technical assistance, tourism, Trade Assistance, trade barriers, Trade Capacity, trade competitiveness, trade context, Trade costs, trade development, trade facilitation, trade finance, trade flows, trade integration, trade logistics, trade policies, trade policy, trade policy reforms, Trade Promotion, trade protection, trade reforms, trade regimes, Trade Strategy, Trade volumes, trade-related investment, Traffic, Traffic volumes, transit, Transport, transport choice, Transport corridors, Transport Costs, transport infrastructure, transportation, transportation costs, true, undervaluation, Uruguay Round, value of exports, volume of trade, wages, Welfare effects, WTO,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16358
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