An extensive literature stresses that currency misalignments are costly in terms of growth performance. However, these …

run growth. Therefore, recent studies have investigated the growth effects remittances in the recipient countries but … specifications and estimation methods. Our results show that the direct growth effects of remittances are insignificant. However …, remittances may have small indirect growth effects. …

facilitated industrialization and rapid growth in China. However, as we know that there could be other factors influencing … of their causality. In addition, we investigate the role played by the exchange rate on growth and discuss some policy …

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic growth … a systematic manner. We find no evidence that trade openness is directly and robustly correlated with economic growth in … different trade openness proxies and none of the proxies is robustly associated with economic growth. The data evidence also …

This study empirically explores the growth effects of rent seeking activity (RSA) for a group of 52 developing … democracy and corruption control. The empirical analysis suggests that, for this group of countries, RSA retards economic growth …, in that (i) democratic institutions — which are inimical to RSA, are growth enhancing and (ii) reduction in the extent of …

economic growth in the recipient countries. Dutch Disease effects might be responsible for this result. This paper examines the …