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Aid for
Trade
Many poor countries lack the basic infrastructure to take advantage
of the market access opportunities resulting from a successful
outcome to the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The Doha
Ministerial Declaration made
technical assistance and capacity building a key component of
the development dimension of this Round. In December 2005, the Sixth
Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong created a new WTO work programme
on Aid-for-Trade. A Task Force came up with a set of recommendations,
endorsed in 2006, giving a monitoring role to the WTO. As a follow-up,
it has been decided that this monitoring and evaluation role will
consist of an annual global review to be held in the Committee on
Trade and Development followed by a debate on Aid for Trade in the
General Council.
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