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Impacts of Aid for Trade on Trade with the EU The Role of Old and New Member States

Journal Global Policy and Governance

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Title Impacts of Aid for Trade on Trade with the EU The Role of Old and New Member States
 
Creator Udvari, Beáta
 
Subject Aid for Trade; EU’s development policy; EU-15; New member states; Gravity model
 
Description Aid for Trade (AfT) is a new international program supporting developing countries to adjust to the multilateral trading system and to benefit from the liberalization process, by granting them more focused development assistance. The European Union is the largest aid provider in the world, and the EU has also incorporated the principles of AfT in its development policy. Previous research has proved that AfT is able to expand trade between developing countries and the EU itself. However, it is not yet clear whether this trade expansion is only the result of the EU-15’s activity or the new EU member states also contribute to it.Present research aims to investigate the impacts of the AfT assistance provided by the EU-15 on the trade between the EU-15 and the recipient countries, and on the trade between the new EU-members and the recipients, respectively. The results of the gravity model indicate that the EU-15 is a more attractive market to ACP countries than the new member states: AfT provided to ACP countries positively influences the exports to EU-15, while it has no significant impact on trade with the new member states.
 
Publisher Journal Global Policy and Governance
 
Date 2015-01-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://transitionacademiapress.org/jgpg/article/view/63
10.14666/2194-7740-3-1-006
 
Source Journal Global Policy and Governance; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 77-93
2194-7759
2194-7740
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://transitionacademiapress.org/jgpg/article/view/63/41
 
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