Aid for trade: Assessing the effects on recipient exports of manufactures and primary commodities to donors and non-donors

Philipp Hühne, Birgit Meyer and Peter Nunnenkamp

No 1953, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: Considering that primary commodity dependence continues to be a major problem of various lower income countries, we analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an asymmetric and aggregated gravity model, we find that AfT has been effective in promoting recipient exports of manufactures - whereas the effects on primary commodities are typically insignificant. These findings hold not only for trade relations with donor countries but also in south-south trade with other developing countries.

Keywords: aid for trade; recipient exports; export diversification; south-south trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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