| Aid for trade has become a major item on the international trade and development agenda. This is to a large extent in response to concerns expressed by developing countries and economies in transition with regard to their capacities to implement (regional) trade agreements, especially WTO agreements, and undertake necessary adjustments to increase net development gains from emerging trade opportunities. In this UNU-CRIS Second World Report on Regional Integration, major UN agencies active in development cooperation and longstanding providers of trade-related technical assistance and capacity building discuss ways to sustain the momentum towards the operationalization and implementation of the Aid for Trade initiative and the supportive role to be played by the UN system. This is consistent with UN's role in promoting development and helping to achieve poverty reduction, as committed in the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome. This Second World Report is published by Springer Dordrecht and is now available as e-book. The Report is edited by UNU-CRIS Associate Director, Philippe De Lombaerde and Lakshmi Puri, Acting Deputy Secretary-General and Director of the Division on International Trade and Services, and Commodities at UNCTAD in Geneva. The Report was realised in collaboration with UNCTAD, ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, UNECE, UNIDO, UNDP and UNEP. The Report should be of particular interest to government officials, officials of regional organizations, representatives of the private sector dealing with trade agreements and negotiations, civil society and academia.
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD For further information, please contact Dr. Philippe De Lombaerde at pdelombaerde@cris.unu.edu |
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