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Some Tough Love On "Aid For Trade".  28 November 2005. Forthcoming in Intereconomics.

Abstract

Proposals for additional funds to support the adjustment of developing countries to trade reforms and to further integrate them into the world economy attained considerable prominence during 2005. I examine the rationales for such "aid for trade" and find that some of them need clarification or reformulation. Even so, I conclude that aid for trade can be an important vehicle to reduce the opposition of certain developing countries to the conclusion of the Doha Round, should that ever come to pass.