WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

OECD, Château

(28 March, OECD Auditorium - 29 March, Room E)

AGENDA

28 March 2011 - OECD Auditorium

Opening Remark

• H.E. Mr. Antti Kuosmanen, Ambassador of Finland to the OECD and the UNESCO

Keynote Speaker

• Professor Anne O. Krueger, John Hopkins University, USA (Speech)

Presentations:

• The OECD Work on Binding Constraints to Trade and the Rationale of the Workshop
  Jean-Jacques Hallaert, OECD
• Identifying Supply-Side Constraints to Exports: Some Results from Exploratory Case Studies
  José Guilherme Reis, World Bank
• Value Chain Analysis as a tool for identifying trade constraints: the case of perishable products in Peru
  Carolyn Robert, Inter-American Development Bank

Open Discussion

(1) Overview:

• Estimating the Constraints to Developing Countries Trade: A Taxonomy of the Binding Constraints to Trade Expansion for Various Country Groupings
  Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Ricardo Cavazos & Gimin Kang, OECD

Open Discussion

(2) Case studies:

• Are road investments sufficient to mitigate the cost of being landlocked?
  Gaël Raballand, World Bank Country Office in Zambia
• Improving Infrastructure, Facilitating Trade and Reducing Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion
  Susan Stone, OECD
• Constraints on realising gains from trade in Central Asia and Mongolia
  Richard Pomfret, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Aid for Trade in Small and Vulnerable Economies
  Dirk Willem te Velde, Overseas Development Institute
  Mohammad Razzaque, Commonwealth Secretariat
• The French Strategy on Aid for Trade - A Case Study of the Senegalese SME Upgrading Programme
  Jean-René Cuzon and Ian Parizot, Agence Française de Développement

Open Discussion

29 March 2011 - Room E

Presentations:

• Challenges in Assessing the Trade Impact of Aid for Trade
  William Hynes,OECD
• Lessons from a Meta-Evaluation of Aid for Trade
  Patrick Messerlin, IEP & GEM de SciencesPo
• Aid for Trade: Ensuring That the Most Needy Get It
  Richard Newfarmer, International Growth Centre
• Better Regulations and Better Negotiations as Tools for Trade: Where Aid for Trade Can and Cannot Help  (background paper)
  Sheila Page, Overseas Development Institute
• Challenges in Assessing the Impacts of Aid for Trade: Perspectives of African Trade Practitioners
  Stephen Karingi, UN Economic Commission for Africa

Open Discussion

Panelists:

• Stephen Karingi, UN Economic Commission for Africa
• Gaël Raballand, World Bank Country Office in Zambia
• Sheila Page, Overseas Development Institute
• Liz Turner, Saana Consulting

Open Discussion

Background documents

OECD Papers:

Estimating the Constraints to Developing Countries Trade  (draft 2011)

Aid for Trade: A Meta Evaluation  (draft 2011)

Increasing the Impact of Trade Expansion on Growth: Lessons from Trade Reforms for the Design of Aid for Trade (2010)

Binding Constraints to Trade Expansion: Aid for Trade Objectives and Diagnostics Tools (2009)

Trading Out of Poverty: How Aid for Trade Can Help (2009)