Aid for Trade at a Glance 2022 is a joint publication of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was prepared under the overall guidance of (i) at the OECD, Olivier Cattaneo, Head of Policy Analysis and Strategy Unit of the Development Co-operation Directorate, supervised by Haje Schütte, Senior Counsellor and Head of the Financing for Sustainable Development Division and Mayumi Endoh, Deputy-Director for Development Co-operation, and (ii) at the WTO, Michael Roberts, Head of the Aid for Trade Unit of the Development Division, supervised by Deputy Director-General Xiangchen Zhang and Shishir Priyadarshi, Director of the Development Division.
Coralie Martin, Economist and Policy Analyst in the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate was the lead author. She benefited from statistical support by Aussama Bejraoui and Julian Kath. Country Profiles were prepared and compiled by Visvanathan Subramaniam and Julia Gruebler, both Economic Affairs Officers in the Development Division of the WTO. Silvia Sorescu and Jane Korinek, Trade Policy Analysts in the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, co-authored sections of Chapter 3 on digitalisation and gender. The authors benefited from input, guidance and comments from Grégoire Garsous and Javier Lopez-Gonzalez in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate.
This publication is also the result of extensive consultations with WTO and OECD members as well as other partners of the Aid for Trade initiative. It benefited from reporting efforts to the OECD Credit Reporting System on which the data analysis is based, and answers to the joint OECD-WTO Aid for Trade Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) survey conducted in 2021-22. The M&E survey was managed by Théo Mbise, Economic Affairs Officer in the Development Division of the WTO. It also benefited from fruitful exchanges with the OECD Development Assistance and Trade committees, including at the Workshop of the Aid for Trade Monitoring and Evaluation exercise on May 31, 2022, with the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD), as well as the peer learning event with the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and Trade Committee on 13 December 2021, and through regular CTD meetings. The authors also had opportunities to discuss preliminary findings in fora such as the 2021 United Nations (UN) Ambassadorial Retreat in Preparation of the 5th UN Conference on the Least-Developed Countries (LDCs).
The authors are particularly grateful to Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Senior Communications Manager for Development (OECD), who provided continuous guidance and support throughout the publication process. The authors also benefited from the assistance of Marc Tocatlian, Information Technology Manager, Joëlle Bassoul, Communication Manager, Iben Hjorth, Communication Officer, Audrey Garrigoux, Programme Management Officer at the OECD. The authors also thank Stephanie Coic, Communication Officer at the OECD, for her work on formatting the publication, and Sarah Burri, Visual Communication Officer at the WTO, for her work on the formatting and publication of the Country Profiles.
The authors wish to thank Visvanathan Subramaniam and Théo Mbise (WTO), as well as Cemre Balaban (OECD) for comments provided during the drafting of this publication. They are also grateful for comments provided by OECD colleagues Abdoulaye Fabregas, Cécilia Piemonte, Christian Steidl, Giorgio Gualberti, Jenny Hedman, Lisa Williams, Özlem Taskin, Rachel Morris, and Yasmin Ahmad.
The report was edited by Suzanne Parandian.