Development and building trade capacity
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Executive summary
The 2022 Aid for Trade Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) exercise takes place amidst crises of unprecedented magnitude, significantly affecting trade and investment. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe human and economic losses, slowing down and in some cases reversing hard won progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Countries lacking the capacity to implement large monetary and fiscal stimuli were hit hard, experiencing widening inequalities. While 2021 showed signs of a swift recovery, in early 2022 Russia’s war against Ukraine created a major humanitarian crisis and derailed economic growth prospects. Spikes in the price of energy and food caused by the war, combined with rapidly rising inflation, are posing serious food security risks in low-income countries (LICs).
Statistical note
According to the WTO Task Force on Aid for Trade, projects and programmes are part of aid for trade if these activities have been identified as trade related development priorities in the partner country’s national development strategies.
Explanatory note
The aid-for-trade country profiles provide factual information aid-for-trade financing flows, trade costs, trade performance and key development indicators at the country level. The aim is to compare a performance in these four categories for the year 2020 as compared to 2006, the year of the inception of the aid-for-trade initiative, and against country group benchmarks for these selected indicators. The aim of the country profiles is to stimulate debate on aid-for-trade effectiveness.
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Los PDSL constituyen un grupo muy especial de países que se enfrentan a dificultades muy atípicas. Para hacer frente a estos desafíos será necesario adoptar medidas concretas destinadas a integrar más plenamente a los PDSL en el sistema multilateral de comercio. En el presente informe se han identificado algunas de las esferas y cuestiones respecto de las que tanto los propios PDSL como las organizaciones y países de tránsito involucrados habrán de adoptar medidas específicas para superar los cuellos de botella del comercio. La escasez de datos actualizados y las dificultades para obtenerlos de algunas de las zonas más remotas del mundo hacen difícil reflejar todos los factores de manera integral y precisa.