Trade Aid And Development

Author : Constantine Michalopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319658612

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Aid, Trade and Development by Constantine Michalopoulos Pdf

This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community’s response through aid and trade. Much has happened: the oil crises of the 1970s, the debt crises of the 1980s, the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the Millennium Development Goals, the onslaught of Globalization and the rise of its opponents since the financial crisis of the 2000s. Through it all, development has spread and global poverty declined. The volume assesses the contributions and coherence of developing and developed country policies and the role played by global institutions entrusted with responsibilities to enhance trade and support development. The volume concludes with a focus on the prospects for the future and the changes needed to make globalization more equitable. With 50 years of professional experience in the World Bank, the WTO and bilateral aid agencies, Michalopoulos brings an insider’s perspective on the workings of these institutions and what needs to be done to make them more effective and responsive to changing global needs.

Author : Oli Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136551192

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Trade, Aid and Security by Oli Brown Pdf

'A compelling contribution to our evolving understanding of the links between trade, aid and security and what the international community needs to do to ensure peace and development in the world.' Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme 'For far too long the international community ahs stood by while countries around the world descend into conflict and anarchy. We need to understand how we can engage more effectively with fragile and failing states. Trade, Aid and Security is an important step in this direction.' Jan Pronk, Special Representative of the UN General Secretary in Sudan and Former Minister of Development and the Environment, The Netherlands. 'As we begin to contemplate what the post-Iraq world will look like it is vital that we reflect on the limits of the utility of hard power and the importance that development can play in avoiding failed states before they fail, preventing conflicts and more successfully re-building states. This timely book makes a most important contribution to that process.' Lord Paddy Ashdown, UN High Representative for Boznia and Herzegovina, 2002 2006 Leader of UK Liberal Democrat Party, 1988 1999 'As UN Special Representative to the Great Lakes Region of Africa I have seen the devastating impact of the trade in conflict resources with my own eyes. Amongst much else, this book shows how different trade and aid politics can tackle the trade in conflict resources and make a real contribution to secure societies. It is essential reading.' Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Central and East Africa. Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur. All resonate loudly on the international stage, exposing and illustrating the intractable links between global security, control over naturals resources be it oil, water, timber or 'conflict diamonds' and the manipulation of foreign aid and international trade policy. This volume, written by leading authorities from across the globe, introduces the linkages between trade, aid and security, and exposes how inappropriate or misused trade and aid policy can and do undermine security and contribute to violence and the disintegration of national states. On a practical level they demonstrate how six key areas of trade and aid policy can be used to help forge stability and security, reduce the likelihood of armed conflict, and assist economic and political recovery in our war-torn world.

Author : OECD,World Trade Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264278479

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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2017 Promoting Trade, Inclusiveness and Connectivity for Sustainable Development by OECD,World Trade Organization Pdf

This edition focuses on trade connectivity, which is critical for inclusiveness and sustainable development. Physical connectivity enables the movement of goods and services to local, regional and global markets.

Author : OECD,World Trade Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264429512

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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2019 Economic Diversification and Empowerment by OECD,World Trade Organization Pdf

This edition analyses how trade can contribute to economic diversification and empowerment, with a focus on eliminating extreme poverty, particularly through the effective participation of women and youth. It shows how aid for trade can contribute to that objective by addressing supply-side capacity and trade-related infrastructure constraints, including for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises notably in rural areas.

Author : Philippe Lombaerde,Lakshmi Puri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402094552

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Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives by Philippe Lombaerde,Lakshmi Puri Pdf

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

Author : George Cho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134874194

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Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence by George Cho Pdf

There are complex interrelationships between trade, aid and development, and with the move to a greater integration of economies throughout the world, trade has become a vital factor in the economic, social and political development of Third World nations. Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence presents a concise analysis of this vast topic. Trade is introduced as a concept and as an activity; aid and global interdependence are then described in the context of trade in practice. This discussion of the world's shifting patterns of trade is illustrated with case studies from Asia, Africa and Central and Latin America.

Author : Ian Goldin,Kenneth A. Reinert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821362754

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Globalization for Development by Ian Goldin,Kenneth A. Reinert Pdf

"Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows-trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas-and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. By considering what helps and what does not, the book presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective as a vehicle for shared growth and prosperity. It will be of interest to students, researchers and anyone interested in the effects of globalization in today's economy and in international development issues."

Author : Avrahm G. Mezerik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:835730494

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Trade, Aid and Economic Development by Avrahm G. Mezerik Pdf

Author : OECD,World Trade Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264201453

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Aid for Trade in Action by OECD,World Trade Organization Pdf

The almost 300 case stories in this book show clear results of how aid-for-trade programmes are helping developing countries to build human, institutional and infrastructure capacity to integrate into regional and global markets and to make good use of trade opportunities.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264028609

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The Development Dimension Aid for Trade Making it Effective by OECD Pdf

This book sets out how much aid OECD countries are already providing towards trade-related activities in developing countries, reviews the effectiveness of existing programmes, and makes recommendations for improvements.

Author : OECD,World Trade Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264235793

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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2015 Reducing Trade Costs for Inclusive, Sustainable Growth by OECD,World Trade Organization Pdf

The Aid for Trade Initiative has allowed for the active engagement of a large number of organisations and agencies in helping developing countries and especially the least developed build the infrastructure and supply-side capacity they need to connect to regional and global markets and improve ...

Author : John A. Pincus,Council on Foreign Relations
Publisher : New York : Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by McGraw-Hill
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Economic development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033801577

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Trade, Aid, and Development by John A. Pincus,Council on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Burton I. Kaufman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421435732

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Trade and Aid by Burton I. Kaufman Pdf

Originally published in 1982. Trade and Aid outlines the transition of U.S. foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration. In the years leading up to Eisenhower's election, America's predominant foreign economic program was based on the concept of "trade not aid," which deemphasized foreign aid and relied instead on liberalized world trade and the encouragement of private foreign investment to assure world economic growth. When Eisenhower took office in 1953, he embraced this doctrine. However, as problems in the Third World worsened, it became clear to Eisenhower and other architects of American foreign policy that trade and private investment were insufficient solutions to the economic woes of developing nations. In 1954 Eisenhower began to embrace economic aid as a core axis of his foreign economic policy. Burton I. Kaufman contextualizes Eisenhower's foreign policy leadership in the ongoing historical evaluation of Eisenhower's leadership prowess. He evaluates the outcomes of the Eisenhower administration's trade and aid program, arguing that developing countries were worse off by the time Eisenhower left office.

Author : Christopher D. Wraight
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441125484

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The Ethics of Trade and Aid by Christopher D. Wraight Pdf

This philosophical examination of trade and aid argues that a compassionate, rational and humane engagement with the global economy could lead to a better world.

Author : Michael Krause
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638810319

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Trade, Aid and Economic Development - A Comparative Analysis Between Georgia & Latvia by Michael Krause Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,00, Saint Mary's University (Economics), course: Course: Development Economics, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The paper focuses on international trade and foreign aid in relationship with economic development comparing two former Soviet Union states: Latvia and Georgia. Communism divided the economic world into two different camps, with countries characterized by centrally planned economies and others with a free market economic system. After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, now capitalism equally separated the former Soviet nations.