This paper examines different explanations-initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions-of the … Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading …

China's sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … substantially during the past decade. This has rendered trade elasticities estimated using aggregate data highly unstable, with more …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It … uses (i) a time series approach where trade is defined in terms of aggregate outcomes, i.e., as the share of imports plus … exports in GDP, and (ii) a cross sectional approach, where trade is defined in terms of trade policy, i.e., as actual trade …

these spillovers into trade, commodity price, and financial market channels. For Canada, a one percent shock to U.S. real … important than trade in recent decades. Thus, a large proportion of the reduction in Canadian output volatility since the 1980s ….S. shock-"when the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold". These spillovers are transmitted through both trade and financial …

(notably, sudden stops in financial flows) for emerging markets, and with real external shocks (in particular, terms-of-trade …

This paper studies the structure and evolution of trade protection in the Middle East and North African (MENA ….8. The paper also develops an overall index of trade protection and finds that tariff levels, their dispersion, and nontariff …

The paper focuses on systemically important jurisdictions in the global trade network, complementing recent IMF work on … systemically important financial sectors. Using the IMF's Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) database and network analysis, the … paper develops a framework for ranking jurisdictions based on trade size and trade interconnectedness indicators using data …