We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya's manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in …. Consequently, formulating policies that effectively relax restrictive barriers to trade in the economy could speed up firm …

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization on firm productivity growth in Kenya’s manufacturing sector, using a … panel spanning 8 years; 1992-1999. Our analysis reveals that liberalizing trade generates high productivity improvements in …. Consequently, formulating policies that effectively relax restrictive barriers to trade in the economy could speed up firm …

This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive … distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short … exposure to foreign trade significantly reduces the size of the shadow economy. This could imply that as countries become more …

approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade …-run relationship reveal the existence of a positive and statistically significant relationship between trade openness and economic … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …