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Physical Trade Infrastructure

Like Supply Capacity, this is a category where the boundary between trade support and more general support to production or develop­ment is not clearly defined. Some agencies try to allocate spending on individual projects partially to trade and partially to other purposes; others focus on the principal purpose of a project or a type of activity.

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australia

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Connectivity in the Mekong—Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Cambodia Emergency Flood Rehabilitation Project
Samoa Economic Infrastructure Program
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italy

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Physical Trade Infrastructure

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.

australia

australia

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Enhancing access to trade finance—working with the Asian Development Bank
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italy

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Italian Assistance to the Agrarian Reform Community Development Support Program - The Philippines (26,2 million Euro, soft loan)

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.

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australia

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Empowering women through trade—South Pacific
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italy

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Gender mainstreaming programmes in Afghanistan, Albania, Ethiopia, Palestine, Senegal, MENA Region, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia