This is a book review of "Aid for Trade: What Have We Learnt? Which Way Ahead?" edited by Cadot and de Melo. The book looks at the Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative from its beginnings and the premise of trade generating growth upon which AfT is built, to examining case studies and the on-going issue of monitoring and evaluation before concluding with a distillation of lessons learnt and policy recommendations for AfT going ahead.