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Le Panorama de l’Aide pour le commerce est axé sur la connectivité commerciale, qui est essentielle pour la croissance économique, l’inclusion et le développement durable. La connectivité physique permet l’acheminement des biens et des services vers les marchés locaux, régionaux et mondiaux. Elle est étroitement liée à la connectivité numérique, qui est fondamentale dans l’environnement commercial actuel. Néanmoins, Internet reste inaccessible pour 3,9 milliards de personnes dans le monde, dont bon nombre vivent dans les pays les moins avancés.Le présent rapport s’appuie sur l’analyse des coûts du commerce et l’applique au domaine numérique, reflétant ainsi le changement de nature du commerce. Il cherche des moyens d’aider les pays en développement, notamment les pays les moins avancés, à bénéficier des avantages du commerce. Il examine les actions menées par un large éventail de parties prenantes, y compris les gouvernements, leurs partenaires de développement et le secteur privé, afin de promouvoir la connectivité pour un développement durable. Un message ressort clairement du rapport: pour participer au commerce électronique, il faut bien plus qu’une simple connexion Internet. Cette édition de poche contient des extraits des chapitres rédigés par la Banque mondiale, le Cadre intégré renforcé, la CNUCED, l’ITC, l’OCDE, l’OMC, l’UIT, et Business for eTrade Development.

Deepening economic integration via regional co-operation has emerged as a key priority in the reform strategies of most developing economies over the past decade. This is evidenced by the explosive growth in bilateral and regional trading agreements in which they now participate. Regional aid for trade can help developing countries spur regional economic integration, enhance competitiveness, and plug into regional production networks. Based on a rich set of experiences regarding regional aid for trade projects and programmes, the study finds that regional aid for trade offers great potential as a catalyst for growth, development and poverty reduction. The study recommends greater emphasis on regional aid for trade as a means of improving regional economic integration and development prospects. While regional aid for trade faces many practical implementation challenges, experience has shown that associated problems are not insurmountable but do require thorough planning, careful project formulation, and prioritization on the part of policy makers.

This study presents a tool to help design logical frameworks for results-based management of aid for trade. What are donors and partner countries trying to achieve?  Three different levels of possible objectives (i.e. direct, intermediate and final) are explored. Trade is treated as an intermediate objective, serving as a transmission mechanism, with an increase in the value for trade as the final objective. Six case studies - Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Rwanda, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam - provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges involved in introducing a tool for managing results in an agenda that covers a broad area of interventions that are aimed at building trade-related supply side capacities.

History has shown that openness to trade is a key ingredient for economic success and for improved living standards. But simply opening the economy to international trade is not enough. Developing countries – especially the least developed – require help in building their trade-related capacities in terms of information, policies, procedures, institutions and infrastructure, so as to compete effectively in the global economy. Aid for trade aims to help countries overcome the supply-side constraints that inhibit their ability to benefit from market access opportunities. The almost 300 case stories show clear results of how aid-for-trade programmes are helping developing countries to build human, institutional and infrastructure capacity to integrate into regional and global markets and to make good use of trade opportunities. Together, these stories are a rich and varied source of information on the results of aid for trade activities – an indication of the progress achieved by the Aid-for-Trade Initiative.

Succeeding with Trade Reforms: The Role of Aid for Trade highlights the potential of aid for trade to boost economic growth and reduce poverty, while discussing the various reasons why it may not be realised. In so doing, this book draws lessons for the design of aid-for-trade projects and programmes and for increasing their effectiveness. Building on this analysis, the book also quantifies the binding constraints to trade in developing countries and the importance of complementary and compatible policies (such as education, governance, business environment and macroeconomic stability) to maximise the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth.

Ce document d’orientation décrit un certain nombre des mesures à prendre en compte dans le cadre de toute action de renforcement des capacités visant à intégrer les enjeux environnementaux dans les plans nationaux de développement, les cycles budgétaires nationaux et les principales stratégies économiques sectorielles. Il passe en revue les acteurs clés à associer aux processus décisionnels, détermine dans les grandes lignes les éventuels besoins en capacités et propose des solutions pour les satisfaire. Ce document a pour objet de soutenir les pays en développement dans leur effort pour écologiser leur trajectoire de développement. Il a également vocation à aider les organismes chargés de la coopération pour le développement et de l’environnement dans l’action qu’ils mènent pour appuyer ce processus.

At a time when aid budgets are under pressure and scrutiny, there is a need to improve accountability. This is especially true in the case of aid for trade, which has become an increasingly important priority in development co-operation.   Strengthening Accountability in Aid for Trade looks at what the trade and development community needs to know about aid-for-trade results, what past evaluations of programmes and projects reveal about trade outcomes and impacts, and how the trade and development community could improve the performance of aid for trade interventions.