The Right to Trade: Rethinking the Aid for Trade Agenda
Synopsis
Aid for trade is a fixture in the development landscape, accounting for approximately 25 per cent of total ODA, and is being positioned as a building block in the future development agenda beyond the 2015 expiry of the Millennium Development Goals.
In The Right to Trade, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton argue that aid for trade has not delivered on its initial promise.
To create a genuinely pro-development trade liberalisation agenda, the authors propose that a ‘right to trade’ and a ‘right to development’ be enshrined within the WTO’s dispute settlement system; and that aid for trade funds be consolidated into a coherent and predictable framework, where dedicated funds are committed by rich countries to a Global Trade Facility and dispersed through a transparent and competitive process.
Together these proposals would help ensure that international trade works for developing countries and will help preserve a development-friendly multilateral trading system.
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About the authors and Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations and acronyms
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Summary
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Introduction
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From ‘Trade Not Aid' to ‘Aid for Trade'
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Has Bringing Aid and Trade Together Helped?
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A Proposal to Support Pro-development Trade Liberalisation
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Conclusion
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Notes and References
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