strong potential to reinforce the positive effects of PIDA and to contribute to the region's growth and development more …

more openness in trade policy formation and, in response, many governments have undertaken openness initiatives. Despite … these developments there has been only a little research into the increased openness of trade policy processes in general … and no research aimed at developing a consistent framework for categorizing various openness initiatives and permitting a …

As developing countries look to embrace an outward-oriented growth strategy, some may be concerned about the … possibility that increased openness will be accompanied by increased volatility. However, although a more open economy may face … increased volatility in its terms of trade, openness confers diversification benefits. In this note, we argue that export …

strong potential to reinforce the positive effects of PIDA and to contribute to the region's growth and development more …

Although trade liberalization and trade openness are assumed to be strongly associated with each other and often used … link between trade openness and trade restrictions, it argues that while a negative link between various types of trade … restrictions and trade openness is evident, the relationship is weak, statistically not always significant and there is no clear …

productivity picked up. Imports increased faster than exports, thus generating serious balance of trade deficits that were financed … by capital inflows. Trade openness did no eliminate the prevailing anti export bias, but this bias certainly was reduced …

productivity in the long run. With regard to financial openness, we show that in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Switzerland …This paper analyzes the connection between openness and economic performance in Switzerland. Considering different … dimensions of openness, we show that the Swiss economy is classified as relatively open. Nevertheless, there still is potential …