Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since the … examines three strands of recent work on this issue: cross-country regressions focusing on within-country growth, synthetic … positive impact on economic growth, on average, although the effect differs across countries. Overall, these research findings …

The relationships between trade and growth have long been a subject of considerable controversy among economists. In … the early post-World War II period, many economic leaders concluded that protective trade policies stimulated growth, and …-oriented policies were widely adopted. While subsequent cross-country studies have generally indicated the growth effectiveness of …

shift from OECD to non-OECD regions, reflecting faster growth in these countries. Multilateral global trade liberalisation …

propelling these economies to miracle-level growth. Just as Bastiat observed, the case made by free trade critics in favor of …

countries with respect to trade and the balance of payments, economic growth, poverty reduction, the distribution of income …

those in other regions in achieving sustained fast growth, and thereby raising living standards and reducing poverty. This … with heavy reliance on growth of manufactured exports, high rates of national saving to finance high rates of domestic … committed, capable and credible governments). However, this development strategy has left growth very heavily dependent on …