This presentation explores the role of trade in development, noting that while trade openness can promote growth, poverty reduction, and market diversification, its benefits are uneven without supportive infrastructure, governance, and education. Developing countries face challenges like supply-side constraints and domestic resistance to liberalization. To address this, the WTO and partners launched initiatives such as Aid for Trade, trade-related technical assistance, the WTO Chairs Programme, and the Enhanced Integrated Framework to help build trade capacities. However, trade alone is not enough there needs to be complementary policies to ensure meaningful development outcomes.