Vol. 50 Nr. 4/2016: Trade and development
In December 2005, the Aid for Trade initiative was launched at the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference. It was to enable developing countries to draw optimum benefits from global trade by assisting them in overcoming trade-related constraints. Today, the success of the initiative is given a sometimes very mixed assessment. However, this has not been the case regarding its basic notion that trade can make an important contribution to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction provided that it can be made fair and inclusive. This is also reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals, but it is also borne testimony to in the latest changes in development co-operation policy, which is increasingly focusing on trade and markets.
Focus
- Trade and development – growing closer for sustainable rural transformation
- Revitalise the Aid for Trade initiative
- Fostering intra-regionale trade in Africa I: Supporting women and informal networks
- Fostering intra-regional trade in Africa II: What could the role of CAADP be?
- Boosting trade with better border infrastructure
- Agricultural value chains – a motor of inclusive economic development in rural areas?
- The four Ps – a market-led development for smallholders
- Strengthening local rice markets – The case of smallholder producers in the Philippines
- Making markets work for the poor – an example from Bangladesh
- Making markets work for the poor II – Enhancing sustainable income for vulnerable farmers in the Philippines
- Small farmers, big retailers – How to link smallholders to supermarkets
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