between export sophistication and economic growth. As a result, we argue that EXPY is not a good predictor of future economic …In 2007, Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (HHR) demonstrated that export specialization patterns have important implications … for economic growth. The authors developed an indicator of income level linked to the country's exports they called EXPY …

confirms that using openness and imports indexes to proxy for trade yields more robust results compared to the use of export …

these stylized facts with a stable world income distribution.This paper is the first to document why cross-country export …Previous research has documented a strong correlation between countries’ income levels and the quality of their export … goods. Given the evidence of fast unconditional convergence in export quality, this raises the question how to reconcile …

national boundaries. Trade liberalisation could lead to faster import growth than export growth and hence the supply side …