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The Role Of Aid For Trade And Foreign Direct Investment In Poverty Reduction: A Panel Data Analysis Of 91 Developing Countries, Olivia Durowah
The Role Of Aid For Trade And Foreign Direct Investment In Poverty Reduction: A Panel Data Analysis Of 91 Developing Countries, Olivia Durowah
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Aid for trade (AFT) focuses on helping developing nations to overcome supplyside constraints in trade to maximize trade benefits and use trade to achieve economic growth and poverty reduction. Since its inception at the 2005 Hong Kong ministerial conference, AFT has become viewed as a crucial tool for helping developing countries and donors continue to shift their attention to AFT programs, even in times of prolonged global financial crisis. AFT programs ultimately seeks to achieve growth poverty reduction. Thus, this study focuses on assessing the role of AFT and foreign direct investment in poverty reduction using the headcount ratio (1.90 …