, employment, export partners' growth and terms of trade to estimate price and income elasticities of export demand, total … relating them to various strands of trade and growth literature. Based on the results of this estimation, we also calculate … steady-state growth rates, engine and handmaiden effects of growth as well as the dynamic steady-state gains from trade for …

Global trade in agriculture and food products is increasingly governed by an array of standards. A survey conducted in …

of internet use on trade. The present study challenges the first finding by showing that internet use does not explain … economic growth directly in a fully specified growth model. In particular openness to international trade variables seems to be … highly correlated with internet use and the findings in the literature that internet use causes trade is confirmed here …

protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in … Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse …

Africa (SSA). Data from 19 exporter countries was used together with communication costs data in a gravity model of trade … setup. The export data derive from the IMF Direction of Trade and the COMTRADE databases, while the communication cost data … an important factor in bilateral trade in the region. Communications have a significant negative effect on export …

Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …