Editors:
- Presents a number of concrete proposals and policy recommendations
- Contributions from within the UN system are complemented with contributions from the academic world
- Describes the specific AfT-related needs and priorities in each developing region and also cross-regional perspectives as well as institutional mechanism at national, regional and global levels which need to be set up for planning, strategizing, conceptualizing and implementing AfT
- Discusses the role that global and regional organizations and processes play to help developing countries identify needs, successfully prepare projects and mobilize donor support
Part of the book series: United Nations University Series on Regionalism (UNSR, volume 2)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Aid for Trade: Global Perspectives
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Aid for Trade: Regional Perspectives
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Back Matter
About this book
Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse. This is to a large extent in response to concerns expressed by developing countries and economies in transition with regard to their capacities to implement trade agreements, especially WTO agreements, and undertake necessary adjustments to increase net development gains from emerging trade opportunities.
In this World Report, major UN agencies active in development cooperation and longstanding providers of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building discuss ways to sustain the momentum towards the operationalization and implementation of the AfT initiative and the supportive role to be played by the UN system. This is consistent with UN's role in promoting development and helping to achieve poverty reduction, as committed in the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome.
The Report should be of particular interest to government officials, officials of regional organizations, representatives of the private sector dealing with trade agreements and negotiations, civil society and academia.
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Lakshmi Puri is Acting Deputy Secretary-General and Director of the Division on International Trade and Services, and Commodities at UNCTAD in Geneva.
Philippe De Lombaerde is Associate Director of United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges.
In collaboration with: UNCTAD, ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, UNECE, UNIDO, UNDP, UNEP
Editors and Affiliations
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United Nations University- Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), 8000 Brugge, Belgium
Philippe Lombaerde
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UNCTAD Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneve, Switzerland
Lakshmi Puri
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives
Book Subtitle: 2nd World Report on Regional Integration
Editors: Philippe Lombaerde, Lakshmi Puri
Series Title: United Nations University Series on Regionalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9455-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9454-5Published: 17 February 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9455-2Published: 03 February 2009
Series ISSN: 2214-9848
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9856
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 272
Topics: International Economics, European Integration, Economic Geography