show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use …

Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … 2008 economic collapse and under the current multicurrency regime. While overvaluation hampers GDP growth, as well as … growth and employment in export sectors, we have not found that undervaluation would raise it. Replacing the multicurrency …

Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … 2008 economic collapse and under the current multicurrency regime. While overvaluation hampers GDP growth, as well as … growth and employment in export sectors, we have not found that undervaluation would raise it. Replacing the multicurrency …

productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that … account openness has a robust positive effect on TFP growth. The effect of de facto financial integration on TFP growth is …

covered by this study (2005-2017), export expansion stimulated growth, more openness to trade reduced it, and that the …This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that trade can act as an engine of growth using panel data for the Southern … formation was the need to accelerate, foster, and encourage the region's growth. Our results indicate that during the period …

as conventional wisdom that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated. We reexamine this relationship in the … negative association between growth and volatility has been preserved during the 1990s, both trade and financial integration … volatility and trade integration is significantly positive. We find a similar, although less significant, result for the …

exporting firms exhibited higher growth rates of employment, sales, and investment vis-á-vis non-exporters. We confirm our …

as conventional wisdom – that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated. We reexamine this relationship in … basic negative association between growth and volatility has been preserved during the 1990s, both trade and financial … interaction between volatility and trade integration is significantly positive. We find a similar, although less significant …

exporting firms exhibited higher growth rates of employment, sales, and investment vis-á-vis non-exporters. We confirm our …