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 …

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 …

What is the connection between different forms of globalization, economic growth, and welfare? International trade … particular attention to the role of globalization in the Great Divergence, the tariff-trade-growth debate, and the globalization … evaluate the ongoing and active debate about whether globalization is significantly associated with growth in the past. I pay …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

demand and growth. As a result, the collapse of exports to the US and other industrialized countries during the global … financial and economic crisis has sharply curtailed gross domestic product (GDP) growth across the region. The emergence of the … an additional source of demand and growth. The central objective of this paper is to use vector autoregression (VAR …

This research report investigates the trade and growth benefits of the CEFTA agreement for its members. Although the … economic growth. However, there is trade heterogeneity in terms of the extent to which individual countries use CEFTA value …

Developing countries have greatly benefited from globalization, coinciding with economic growth and structural … transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … factor proportions of production and indirectly through the trickledown effect of growth. Existing multicountry studies using …

approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness … openness increases economic growth, but this empirical evidence remains contested. Our empirical results on the long …