Title: Impact of aid for trade, foreign direct investment and remittances inflows on recipient-countries export quality

Authors: Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

Addresses: World Trade Organization, Rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland

Abstract: This paper investigates empirically the impact of financial flows for development, including aid for trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and remittances inflows on the export quality of recipient-countries. The analysis is carried out over a sample of 118 countries, of which 34 least developed countries (LDCs), with data spanning the period 2002-2010. Results suggest that over the entire sample, AfT interventions and FDI inflows are conducive to overall export quality's improvement. In contrast, remittances inflows influence negatively overall export product quality. The analysis has also shown that for LDCs, there are different effects of these inflows on each of the three types of export product quality.

Keywords: aid for trade; foreign direct investment; FDI; remittances; export product quality.

DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2020.106244

Global Business and Economics Review, 2020 Vol.22 No.3, pp.289 - 309

Received: 15 Mar 2018
Accepted: 22 May 2018
Published online: 02 Apr 2020 *

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