Trade as aid
Subtitle: the role of the EBA-trade preferences regime in the development strategy
By: Katerina Gradeva; Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
Contributors: Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
Series: Diskussionsbeiträge / Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung = Documentos de trabajo / Instituto Ibero-Americano de Investigaciones Económicas = Discussion papers / Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research -- Nr. 197; Diskussionsbeiträge (Universität Göttingen. Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) -- no. 197.
Publisher: Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Economic assistance; Evaluation; Tariff preferences
Description: This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union and in particular on the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences regime, which is targeted exclusively on least developed countries (LDCs). The core questions of the investigation are: first, to examine the influence of the EBA preferences on the ACP LDCs' export performance and, second, to compare the impact of the EBA scheme with the one of official development assistance. In addition to their separate effects the combined impact of EBA and aid flows is also analysed. The main results show a very poor performance of the EBA regime. However, the combined effect of the EBA and aid on exports is positive, indicating that the development strategy of the developed countries, in this case of the EU, needs to include both sorts of assistance, aid and trade preferences.
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).