particularly important to growth, but human capital appears not to be significant. The paper also identifies the terms of trade …, trade openness, the government deficit, and the share of government investment in total investment as key policy variables …

slavery, dominance of a plantation-based sugar industry, and broadly similar government and administrative traditions …

This paper considers the potential variables that have determined economic growth in The Gambia during 1964–98. The … results indicate that The Gambia’s aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to scale, thus supporting the … productivity growth that indicates that The Gambia was able to use its resources more efficiently …

This paper proposes an easy-to-follow approach to track merchandise trade using vessel data and applies it to Pacific … island countries. Pacific islands rely heavily on imports and maritime transport for trade. They are also highly vulnerable … data from the UN Global Platform, we construct daily indicators of port and trade activity for Pacific island countries …

This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines … claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition …, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and protectionist measures. The paper investigates the conflicting …

, bilateral economic interactions like trade, FDI and portfolio investment, positively correlate with lending. Chinese banks …' lending to EMDEs also strongly correlates with trade, but not with FDI and, unlike other banks, it correlates negatively with …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also …

Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains … evolution over time in order to contribute to this topic. We find that GVC-related trade, rather than conventional trade, has a … the standard gravity literature for GVC trade; highlighting the key role of institutional features such as contract …