AID FOR TRADE IN THE CRISIS

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AID FOR TRADE IN THE CRISIS

• ECORYS Conference on Rethinking the Development
  Agenda in the Perspective of the Global Crisis

By Stephen Browne, Deputy Executive
Director Date 16 April 2009
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Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration, December 2005

• Japan announced development assistance spending
  on trade, production and distribution
  infrastructure of 10 billion over three years
• USA announced Aid-for-Trade grants of 2.7
  billion a year by 2010

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Main Components of Aid for Trade

• EU and its member States announced trade-related
  development assistance spending of 2 billion
  per year by 2010.
• Trade policy and regulations 0.9 billion
• Trade development 2.0 billion
• Building productive capacity 7.5 billion
• Economic infrastructure 12.1 billion
• Adjustment spending 3.0 6.0 billion
• Total per annum 25 30 billion?

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Aid for Trade Reviews in 2009

• Objectives
• Monitor progress in implementation of the aid for
  Trade Initiative and encourage peer review and
  incentives to advance the implementation of
  concrete national and regional strategies in the
  Regions
• Support mainstreaming of trade into national and
  regional development agendas
• Foster regional approaches and strategies

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Aid for Trade Reviews in 2009

• Africa I COMESA-EAC-SADC North-South corridor
  AFT Conference, Zambia, 6-7 April
• LAC Latin American and Caribbean Review,
  Jamaica, 4-5 May
• Asia Regional Review, Cambodia, 29 May
• Africa II Sub-regional Review, Nigeria, end-May
• Global Review Geneva, 6-7 July

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COMESA-EAC-SADC North-South corridor AFT
Conference

• High-level political commitment four Heads of
  State
• Pledges for infrastructure and trade facilitation
  of 1.2 billion
• Strengthened institutional arrangements

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Enhanced Integrated Framework A4T for the Ldcs
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