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Open Markets for the Poorest Countries

Open Markets for the Poorest Countries. Recommendations of the CGD Working Group on Global Trade Preference Reform Kimberly Ann Elliott Center for Global Development for the UN OHRLLS Brainstorming on LDC IV July 15, 2010, New York. CGD Report Recommendations.

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Open Markets for the Poorest Countries

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  1. Open Markets for thePoorest Countries Recommendations of the CGD Working Group on Global Trade Preference Reform Kimberly Ann Elliott Center for Global Development for the UN OHRLLS Brainstorming on LDC IV July 15, 2010, New York

  2. CGD Report Recommendations High-income countries should by next year: • Expand coverage to all products and all LDCs • Add flexibility and make rules of origin trade-promoting (cumulation among all DCs) • Ensure program stability and predictability to encourage investment + • Advanced developing countries with programs should adopt the same principles by 2015

  3. Where do we stand?

  4. Where do we stand?

  5. Better coordinate trade and aid • Trade facilitation needed in both developed (SPS) and developing (customs, infrastructure) countries • Ensure sufficient resources for EIF, TFF as mechanisms to coordinate aid for trade • Consider a “doing business facility” to support SMEs and other local investors • Leverage investments to promote local, regional trade as well

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