Aid for Trade Flows and Recipient-Countries’ Integration into the World Market for Services Exports: Do Merchandises Exports and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows Matter?

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Journal of International Commerce Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2020-02-28 DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-15450/v1

S. Gnangnon, Susana Del Mar Ramírez

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Abstract

An important literature on the recipient-countries’ export performance effect of Aid for Trade (AfT) flows has focused on the goods side. The few existing studies on the services exports effects of AfT interventions have reached mixed results, reflecting a positive or weak effect. This study aims to complement these few studies by examining the effect of AfT flows on recipient-countries’ share of services exports in the world services exports (‘services export integration’), including through two main channels: their share of merchandises exports in the world merchandises exports (‘merchandises export integration’) and the size of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. The empirical analysis, based on a sample of 105 countries over the period 2002–2016, has shown that these two channels definitely matter for the effect of AfT flows on countries’ services export integration. Specifically, by fostering countries’ merchandises export integration, AfT flows can promote their services export integration. Furthermore, promoting FDI inflows enhances the positive effect of AfT flows on countries’ services export integration.

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贸易流动援助与受援国融入世界服务出口市场:商品出口和外国直接投资流入重要吗?

关于贸易援助(AfT)流动对受援国出口绩效影响的重要文献集中在货物方面。现有的少数关于金融服务出口干预措施影响的研究得出了好坏参半的结果，反映出积极或微弱的影响。本研究旨在通过检验外国直接投资流动对受援国服务出口在世界服务出口中所占份额的影响(“服务出口一体化”)来补充这几项研究，包括通过两个主要渠道:它们在世界商品出口中所占的商品出口份额(“商品出口一体化”)和外国直接投资流入的规模。基于2002年至2016年105个国家样本的实证分析表明，这两个渠道对于AfT流动对国家服务出口一体化的影响绝对重要。具体而言，fdi流动通过促进各国商品出口一体化，可以促进各国服务出口一体化。此外，促进FDI流入可以增强FDI流动对各国服务出口一体化的积极作用。

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