The role of Aid for Trade and Technical Trade Assistance in Regional Economic Integration

摘要

Recent developments in world trade regulation increasingly exhibit a focus on mega-regional trade agreements and other processes of inter- and intra-regional economic integration. These dynamics span advanced, emerging, less developed countries and everything in between. Even where such agreements are ostensibly only being negotiated between developed regions — such as in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America — there are inevitably consequences for the developing world.