We empirically analyse the impact of trade on income levels in the sub-Saharan African countries. The results indicate …

European Union could serve as an opportunity to accelerate global and regional trade integration of ACP countries. Moreover … argues that institutional quality plays a key role in a successful trade liberalisation. In fact, only countries with high …-quality institutions, partly in the form of good government regulations, are likely to benefit from trade. nfortunately, the vast majority …

Recent evidence on the respective contributions of institutions and trade to income levels across countries has … demonstrated that - once endogeneity is considered - institutional quality clearly dominates the effect of trade. We argue that … overall trade is not the most appropriate measure for technology diffusion as a source of productivity growth and propose to …

unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …

-Saharan Africa. While high protection levels in high-income countries in Europe and North America for agricultural trade have been …

While theoretical models suggest that trade is likely to increase productivity and income levels, the empirical … evidence is rather mixed. For some countries, trade has a strong impact on growth, whereas for other countries there is no or … even a negative linkage. We examine one likely prerequisite for a welfare increasing impact of trade, that is, the role of …

unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …