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This paper presents five theoretical openness-and-growth links that can account for trade-induced investment-led growth …, cross-country data suggests that openness influences growth only via its effect on investment, and suggests that openness … promotes investment in all countries whatever the capital-intensive of their exports (contrary to predictions of the old …
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novel theoretical model that establishes a link between trade liberalization and investment-led growth. Estimating equations … domestic protection depresses investment and thereby slows growth. Foreign trade barriers also lower domestic investment, but … the anti-investment effect is weaker and is less robust to sample and specification changes …
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This paper draws together a variety of openness measures to test the association between openness and growth. Although the correlation across different types of openness is not always strong, there is generally a positive association between growth and different measures of openness. The...
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In this paper I use a cross country data set to analyze the relationship between trade orientation, trade distortions and growth. I first develop a simple endogenous growth model that emphasizes the process of technological absorption in small developing countries. According to this model...
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This paper deals with the role of trade regimes in determining economic performance and growth in the developing countries. The policy and empirical literatures on trade orientation and economic growth are critically reviewed; it is argued that a key limitation of these works has been the...
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The search for "growth-oriented adjustment programs" reflects a widespread malaise concerning IMF stabilization programs in countries suffering from external debt crises. A new orthodoxy is emerging from this search, which links recovery in the debtor countries to a shift to "outward-oriented"...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the …
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, investment, average productivity and output up. This evidence contrasts sharply with the results reported in a large and growing …
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worked as well as declines in real wages. The shocks are also associated with short lived rises in aggregate investment and … the qualitative effects of a fiscal shock. Once we allow for habit formation and investment adjustment costs, the model …
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