Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Books and Media Trade policy Going to battle for social security The vain search for project reality Culture and tradition: not an obstacle, but a development factor 03/2003		Trade policy DAC Guidelines: Strengthening Trade Capacity for Development. Paris, OECD 2001, 71 pp., € 20.00, ISBN 9-2641-950-4 Trade policy with regard to the developing countries must not be limited to pressing for the liberalisation of markets. Trade can contribute to poverty reduction if there is a development strategy in which trade policy reform is embedded. Strengthening a country's capacity to trade is a complex task – which is why the donors should join forces and coordinate their efforts, as the guidelines of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee advise. That assumes, of course, that the donors place their particular trade policy interests vis-à-vis the partner countries at the back of the queue. (ell)