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Does Aid for Trade Enhance Export Performance? Investigating the Infrastructure Channel

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There are few empirical studies assessing the effectiveness of aid for trade as regards trade performance. Furthermore, existing work does not test which are the channels through which aid for trade has an impact on trade performance. We address this question using a two-step empirical analysis. Relying on an export performance model, we first test whether institutions and infrastructure, our two potential channels of transmission, are significant determinants of export performance. Second, we test the impact of aid for trade sectoral flows on the previously detected determinants of export performance. We show, as part of the first step, that the infrastructure channel is a highly significant determinant of export performance, whereas the institutional channel turns out to have a limited positive impact on developing countries’ export performance. Furthermore, we show, from the second step, that aid for infrastructure, once instrumented, has a strong and positive impact on the infrastructure level. As a result, we find that a ten per cent increase in aid for infrastructure commitments per capita in developing countries leads to an average 2.34 per cent increase in the exports over GDP ratio. It is also equivalent to a 2.71 per cent reduction in tariff and nontariff barriers. These results highlight the high potential impact of aid for trade on developing countries’ export performance throughout the infrastructure channel.
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hal-01208811 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Mariana Vijil, Laurent Wagner. Does Aid for Trade Enhance Export Performance? Investigating the Infrastructure Channel. The World Economy, 2012, 35 (7), pp.838-868. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-9701.2012.01437.x⟩. ⟨hal-01208811⟩
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