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Unlocking Global Opportunities : The Aid for Trade Program of the World Bank GroupAid for trade is a means to help developing countries, especially low-income countries, integrate into the world economy as a way to spur growth. The recent financial crisis and global recession have, if anything, made aid for trade more urgent. Trade worldwide is likely to contract in 2009. It has become a main channel through which recessionary impulses from the United States and Europe are transmitted to developing countries. But these forces will sooner or later reverse: when growth does resume, trade is likely to be a leading source of demand. Helping countries to take full advantage of the global recovery, whenever it comes, has become a priority for rekindling growth, as well as sustaining rising incomes into the future. The aid-for-trade program of the World Bank Group, as with other donors, is multifaceted. It goes beyond concessional lending commitments to low-income countries (the conventional definition used by the OECD/WTO). It also involves World Bank non-concessional trade-related lending to middle-income countries. Promoting trade-led growth in middle-income countries creates market opportunities for neighboring low-income countries, to say nothing of the benefits such opportunities entail for trade creation worldwide. Moreover, investments by the World Bank's private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), in private sector activities can also generate trade and growth by expanding productive capacity in tradable goods. IFC private investments in the financial sector have also been instrumental in overcoming crisis induced constraints on trade finance. Finally, focusing solely on financial flows would miss the important role of policy advice and technical assistance embodied in studies and capacity-building efforts of donors.
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Uganda - Diagnostic Trade Integration Study Update : Prepared for the Enhanced Integrated FrameworkThe Government of the Republic of Uganda
 has requested an update of the 2006 Diagnostic Trade
 Integration Study (DTIS) and has asked the World Bank to
 take the leading role in this exercise. The update's
 objectives are: (a) to take stock of progress in the
 mainstreaming of trade in the national development plan and
 of the implementation of action matrix recommendations; (b)
 to complement and deepen the analysis in selected areas; and
 (c) to revise and update the action matrix to take account
 of the evolving context since 2006. The aim of the analysis
 is to assist the Government of Uganda in defining an overall
 competitiveness strategy for inclusive, job creating
 export-led growth, and to further mainstream trade, in
 particular regional trade integration, into the general
 policy orientation defined by Uganda's key policy
 documents, including the 2010 National Development Plan
 (NDP). Regional integration can be a key instrument to
 realize these objectives, provided that commitments are
 adhered to and that the regional agenda develops around the
 goal of an open, competitive single market in goods and
 services. Building on the Government of Uganda's
 strategic documents and the results of missions on the
 ground, the DTIS update provides practical, detailed
 guidance to achieve these objectives through in-depth
 analysis and an overall action matrix.
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Angola : Diagnostic Trade Integration StudyThe primary goal of this Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) is to provide a plan for reactivating Angola's productive sectors that reduces the country's reliance on imports while enabling the restoration of export capacity in the medium to long term. Executing such a plan will involve investing in the rehabilitation of infrastructure destroyed by war and making and adjusting policies that affect the institutional underpinnings of a market economy, as well as incentives for exporting and importing. This goal is inextricably linked with the overriding need to create jobs and alleviate poverty identified in the government of Angola's long-term poverty reduction plan, the Estrategia de Combate a Pobreza (ECP).