This chapter is an extensive review of the existing literature on international migration of labour and its close interactions with international trade in goods and services. In addition, we provide a brief model to show that emigration of labour from a developing country has strong implications...

We examine implications of emigration of unskilled workers for quality of a skill-based good exported by a small open economy. This issue is relevant in the context of quality constraint faced by the developing countries like China and India, in promoting their exports, on the one hand, and...

Under general conditions, it has been proved that free trade improves the welfare of open economies. However, the conditions to attain the free trade equilibrium are non trivial: when the productive process is planned, industries do not know the price that will prevail, while the production is...

We derive several cases of 'comparative advantage in nothing', which can be relevant for East Germany. The simplest case with little relevance is the HO assumption of identical technologies across regions implanted into the Ricardian model. The second is the case with full employment wages...

We examine implications of emigration of unskilled workers for quality of a skill-based good exported by a small open economy. This issue is relevant in the context of quality constraint faced by the developing countries like China and India, in promoting their exports, on the one hand, and...

Doctor of Philosophy

This study rigorously investigates the effect of agricultural exports on economic growth across 12 low-income countries—Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Gambia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda—during the period from 2004 to 2023. Employing...

This study analyzes the impact of agricultural exports on economic growth in 30 upper-middle-income countries from 2004 to 2023 using World Bank data and static gravity model. The results indicate that agricultural exports positively influence economic growth, with a 1% increase in exports...

This study examines the impact of agricultural exports and CO2 emissions on economic growth in 78 high-income countries from 2004 to 2023. Using a robust econometric framework that includes fixed-effects and random-effects models, the research finds that agricultural exports positively influence...

This study examines the impact of agricultural exports and CO2 emissions on economic growth in 78 high-income countries from 2004 to 2023. Using a robust econometric framework that includes fixed-effects and random-effects models, the research finds that agricultural exports positively influence...