According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade …. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not … intermediate goods, did lead to faster growth in a manner consistent with theory. …

overemphasized. Many studies have shown a strong positive impact of trade on economic growth across developed and the emerging market …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …

into persistent differences in economic development. Specifically, it establishes that pre-modern economic specialization … pre-modern economic specialization are associated with greater skill-biased occupational heterogeneity, economic …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings …

economies have undergone any structural shift/change or whether the pattern of specialization in these economies is competitive …

The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

The paper shows that the relationship between GDP per capita and levels of specialization can be predicted differently …