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Machine generated contents note: 1.Aid for Trade: Effectiveness, Current Issues and Future Directions -- An Overview / Dirk Willem te Velde -- 1.1.Background -- 1.2.Chapters in the volume -- 1.2.1.Part I: Effectiveness -- 1.2.2.Part II: Current issues -- 1.2.3.Part III: Future directions -- 1.3.Conc...

Contents note continued: 3.1.Background and motivation -- 3.2.The effectiveness of Aid for Trade -- 3.2.1.Expected pathways -- 3.3.Empirical literature on aid effectiveness -- 3.4.The effects of Aid for Trade: an empirical framework -- 3.4.1.Aid for Trade and the costs of trading -- 3.4.2.Aid for Tr...

Contents note continued: 4.4.3.Types of Aid for Trade provided to SVEs -- 4.5.How Aid for Trade could help SVEs integrate into the global economy -- 4.5.1.A simple model -- 4.5.2.How effective have the programmes been? -- 4.5.3.Specific programmes -- 4.6.Empirical analysis on the effects of Aid for...

Contents note continued: 6.Aid for Trade in Practice: Addressing Political Economy Barriers to Improve Development Outcomes / Jakob Engel -- 6.1.Introduction: Aid for Trade within a changing global economy -- 6.2.The Aid for Trade project cycle as a series of complex collective action problems: an a...

Contents note continued: 6.6.3.Quantifying results -- 6.6.4.Robustness of M&E procedures -- 6.7.Conclusion -- 7.Assessing the Effectiveness of Aid for Trade: Lessons from the Ground / Christophe Bellmann -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Evaluating Aid for Trade: why, how and what? -- 7.2.1.Why evaluate Af...

Contents note continued: 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Regional Aid for Trade in sub-Saharan Africa: an overview -- 8.2.1.Regional Aid for Trade flows -- 8.2.2.Evaluation to date of regional Aid for Trade and its effectiveness -- 8.3.Improving the effectiveness of regional Aid for Trade: challenges and op...

Contents note continued: 9.2.2.AfT and aid effectiveness -- 9.2.3.Regional AfT -- 9.2.4.The growing importance of regional AfT -- 9.2.5.Development partner engagement in regional AfT and aid effectiveness -- 9.3.Regional organisations and implementation of regional programmes -- 9.3.1.East African C...

Contents note continued: 10.3.Aid for Trade and the integration of LDCs and SVEs in global trade -- 10.4.Aid for Trade and value chains in small states and LDCs -- 10.5.Lessons learnt and recommendations -- 11.Aid for Trade and Global Value Chains (GVCs): Engaging with High-value Agriculture GVCs an...

Contents note continued: 12.2.Hard infrastructure: on the importance of roads for development and trade in agriculture -- 12.2.1.Impact of infrastructure on trade: evidence at the regional and international scales -- 12.2.2.Bring the market to the poor or the poor to the market? Impact of roads on l...

Contents note continued: 13.2.1.Adjustment in overall aid flows and strategies -- 13.2.2.Main TRA donors, regions and sectors -- 13.3.The adjustment needs of SVEs and LDCs -- 13.3.1.A typology of TRA -- 13.3.2.A multiplying SVE/LDC trade agenda -- 13.3.3.Adjustment as strategic priorities: on paper...

Contents note continued: 14.2.1.Trade performance in China, India and Brazil -- 14.2.2.Introducing the framework for analysis -- 14.3.China -- 14.3.1.Trade-related infrastructure -- 14.3.2.Trade facilitation -- 14.4.India -- 14.4.1.Trade-related infrastructure -- 14.4.2.Trade facilitation -- 14.5.Br...

Contents note continued: 15.4.Has bringing aid and trade together helped? -- 15.4.1.Have Aid for Trade programmes helped to promote trade and development? -- 15.4.2.Has the emergence of Aid for Trade increased the overall effectiveness of aid? -- 15.5.A proposal to support pro-development trade libe...

Contents note continued: 15A.3.2.Links between trade, growth and development -- 15A.3.3.The evaluation of AfT -- 15A.3.4.The Global Trade Facility -- 15A.3.5.The R̀ight to Trade' -- 15A.4.Conclusion -- 16.Future Directions in Aid for Trade / Dirk Willem te Velde -- 16.1.Introduction -- 16.2.Concepti...