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Trade-Related Financial Services
Trade finance is one of the areas where exporters from developing countries are most disadvantaged compared to those from developed countries because selling at a distance to purchasers who are not directly known within the country requires special skills and risk assessment from banks. Only when exports reach a sufficiently high level is it profitable for banks in a country to acquire these skills, so exporters, particularly SMEs, are hampered by difficulty in accessing export finance. Therefore both the cost and the availability of appropriate finance are problems. Some agencies offer support to build national capacity, while others try to fill the gap until such capacity is available.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
Loans and guarantees
B Loan (Complementary Financing Scheme)
Trade Finance Program (TFP)
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
South-South cooperation is the process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges of knowledge, skills, resources and technical know-how, and through regional and interregional collective actions, including partnerships involving Governments, regional organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, for their individual and/or mutual benefit within and across regions.
Triangular Cooperation is a southern-driven partnership between two or more developing countries, supported by a developed country or multilateral organization(s), to implement development cooperation programmes and projects.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
The Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF)
The SASEC Information Highway project
A project to identify and promote regional supply chains
Communities of Practice (COP) models such as the Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness initiative
ADB and IDB joint South-South cooperation initiative
International Maritime Organization(imo)
Gender Mainstreaming, Employment and Youth
The category intends to report on activities to support women's economic empowerment, employment and activities targeted at the youth.
Asian Development Bank(adb)
Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Sector Development Program - Bhutan
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project - Bangladesh