differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …

This paper reviews recent theory and evidence on trade and industrial policy reform in developing countries. First, the …

Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government … have developed in their absence. As a result, China has ended up with an export basket that is significantly more …

unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a … variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which … a smaller trade effect than other currency unions; it has a mildly stimulating effect at best. Third and most …

diverse interpretations. In many cases, the indicators of openness' used by researchers are poor measures of trade barriers or …Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country … link between trade policy and growth have serious shortcomings. Papers that we review include Dollar (1992), Ben …

This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major … conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade … improved trade performance in the region. There is little ground for pessimism in this respect, or for concern that Africa …

The export booms in South Korea and Taiwan starting in the early 1960s are anomalous when compared with later export … than its instigator. In economies like South Korea and Taiwan, an increase in investment required an increase in imports of … exports and imports. Moreover, this could happen with a relatively small change in the relative price of exportables …