This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …

procedures, lower trade costs and increase transparency and predictability in global trade. For Bangladesh, a highly export … Agreement, Bangladesh can improve its trade competitiveness, reduce the time and costs associated with exporting and importing …The WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is an important agreement that aims to simplify and simplify trade …

of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita … GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM …

This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

the mid-1990s, ACI growth has improved the non-oil terms of trade of the developed countries. There have also been strong …, worsening their terms of trade and constraining their pricing ability. ACI growth has been especially beneficial for oil and … benefits from intra-industry trade; the challenges will come from increased head-to-head competition in manufactured goods and …

The pre-eminence of trade and investment in the economic prosperity of developed and developing countries cannot be … 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 …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …

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 …

research and discussions. Experts have argued that the relationship between trade and economic growth in the ECOWAS region is … unclear and the question of whether trade promotes growth and development is controversial. In this paper, an attempt is made … to analyse the impact of trade on economic growth both from a theoretical perspective and using econometric evidence from …