convergence in export volumes with countries that have more liberal trade policies …There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and … growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 …

down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …, and (iii) a domestic response measuring the impact of the country's imports on its domestic income. This decomposition … manufactures and Mexico, and the third on services and Central America. The evidence points toward the need for a trade …

This paper presents estimates of the effects that terms of trade volatility has on growth of real gross domestic … that: (i) in model specifications that do not include country fixed effects, terms of trade volatility has a significant … terms of trade volatility on economic growth is not significantly different from zero; (iii) robust to the inclusion of …

imports of intermediate inputs, and about 85 percent is explained by investment in research and development. The evidence … reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export …

established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper … uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three areas in which it is frequently alleged that currently … exclusively the domain of developing countries' own trade policies and they are collectively important; 3.5 billion people …

the export potential. It explores some of the important supply and demand side factors and assesses the role of trade … domestic market distortions and multiple barriers, resulting in weak export performance and modest regional and global … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … preeminence of processing trade at the time of accession sharply reduced the impact of accession-related tariff reductions on … production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante …