In light of Jordan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2000, this paper explores the impact of this accession on trade flows to investigate whether and how WTO accession facilitates trade growth by applying a standard gravity model. Interestingly, our results on the WTO’s...

The empirical evidence about the temporal precedence between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in open developing economies is mixed. In this research effort, we explored the FDI-growth nexus for sixteen developing countries of Latin America and the Caribbean countries during...

This paper examines the relationship between industrial value added and economic liberalization for a variety of relatively small economies that adopted import-substituting industrialization (ISI) and export led growth in the past. The strong economic performance by some Sub-Saharan African...