Aid-for-trade facilitation

By M. Helble, Catherine L. Mann, J. Wilson. Review of World Economics, 2009

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African Economic Outlook 2012 (2012, background): “Moreover, recent research confirms that the initiative helps to increase trade (Helble et al. 2009), and significantly reduces trade costs in developing countries (Busse et al. 2011).”
Export Performance and Trade Facilitation Reform: Hard and Soft Infrastructure (2010, background): “Although general estimates on the yield of these projects is difficult to obtain, Helble, Mann, and Wilson (2009) use detailed data on aid flows to estimate the responsiveness of trade flows to specific types of foreign aid directed to enhancing trade competitiveness in developing countries.”
Who Benefits from Aid for Trade? Comparing the Effects on Recipient versus Donor Exports (2014, background): “This corroborates similar findings by Helble et al. (2012) and contradicts the skeptical view that donors grant AfT primarily to promote their own export interests.”
Does aid for trade enhance export performance? Investigating on the infrastructure channel (2012, background): “Among the papers seeking to quantify empirically its impact on trade flows, Helble et al. (2009) find that assistance directed toward trade facilitation enhance the trade performance of recipient countries.”