analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an … – whereas the effects on primary commodities are typically insignificant. These findings hold not only for trade relations with … donor countries but also in south-south trade with other developing countries. …

recipient countries. Moreover, the literature on aid for trade (AfT) has often neglected that exporters in the donor countries … have promoted the exports of recipient countries. We simultaneously estimate and compare the effects of AfT on trade in …