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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2015:
Reducing trade costs for inclusive, sustainable growth
High trade costs inhibit the trade integration of numerous developing economies, slowing their economic growth and development prospects. Furthermore, these costs tend to weigh heaviest on the poorest economies, on the smallest firms and on trade in agricultural products. This publication calls for concerted action through the Aid for Trade Initiative to reduce these trade costs and contribute to achieving the emerging post-2015 development agenda.
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Co-published by the WTO and OECD in 2015.
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Foreword and Executive Summary
Chapter 1
- Why trade costs matter for inclusive, sustainable growth (Contributed by the WTO)
Chapter 2
- How are trade costs evolving and why? (Contributed by the World Bank)
Chapter 3
- Aid-for-trade policies, priorities and programmes (Contributed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD))
Chapter 4
- Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (Contributed by the WTO)
Chapter 5
- Reducing trade costs for least developed countries (Contributed by the Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework)
Chapter 6
- Connecting to value chains: the role of trade costs and trade facilitation (Contributed by the OECD)
Chapter 7
- How Aid for Trade helps reduce the burden of trade costs on SMEs(Contributed by the International Trade Centre)
Chapter 8
- Deepening private sector engagement in Aid for Trade (Contributed by the OECD)
Chapter 9
- Trade in the post-2015 development agenda (Contributed by the UN Conference on Trade and Development)
Chapter 10
- Business perspectives on boosting trade and investment (Contributed by the World Economic Forum)
Chapter 11
- The way forward (Contributed by the OECD and the WTO)
Aid for Trade country profiles
Statistical Notes and Annexes (including Aid for Trade key data)