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Aid for Trade and Regional Integration as Means for Accelerating Development of LLDCs

Aid for Trade and Regional Integration as Means for Accelerating Development of LLDCs Introductory remarks By Patrick Guillaumont 2nd UN CONFERENCE ON LLDCs Vienna, Austria – 4 November 2014 (8.15 - 9.45. Why this event ?

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Aid for Trade and Regional Integration as Means for Accelerating Development of LLDCs

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  1. Aid for Trade and Regional Integrationas Means for Accelerating Development of LLDCs Introductory remarks By Patrick Guillaumont 2nd UN CONFERENCE ON LLDCsVienna, Austria – 4 November 2014 (8.15 - 9.45

  2. Whythisevent? Conviction, shared by ITC and Ferdi, thatAft and RI are two crucial and complementary instruments to address the specific handicaps of LLDCs, Researchdone at Ferdi to support this argument In both areas of AfT and RI, withtwo books published on these issues during the last 12 months: - Aid for Trade, What Have WeLearnt? WhichWayAhead? - Integration internationale pour le développement économique en Zone franc 2

  3. A specificneed for regionalintegration in LLDCs Assessedfrom 3 kinds of research Evaluation of the gains expectedfrom a reinforcement or regionalintegration in Africa, gains estimated high in small and vulnerable countries such as landlockedAfrican countries (due to economies of scale and lessening of vulnerability, and requiring « full economicintegration », supported by AfT) Index of the need for RI, likely to beused for the allocation of funds for supporting RI and relying on 2 components - smallness of domesticmarket - remoteness of foreignmarkets, adjusted for a combinedeffect of landlockness and poor infrastructure Aid for Trade assessment 3

  4. Session agenda Pr Jaime de Melo, Ferdi, on Aid for trade in LLDCs ReactionsfromLLDCsofficials: - Valentine Rugwabiza, Minister of East AfricanCommunity - HachimKoumare, Ministre de l’Equipement, des Transports et du Désenclavement, Mali - SaleySaidou, Ministre des Transports, Niger Remarksfrom international institutions : - Dorothy Tembo, DeputyExecutiveDirector, ITC - Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa,Acting Vice–President and Chief Economist, AfDB - Bernardo Calzadilla-Sarmiento, Dr Trade Capacity Building, UNIDO - Raul Torres, Counsellor, Development Division, WTO Keynoteremarksby GyanAcharya, UN USG and High Representative for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS Exhangeswith the floor Concudingremarksfrom the panelists 4

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