Comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries …, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and regional level, in which trade …

This timely Handbook comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in … developing countries, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and … regional level, in which trade occurs. The Handbook on Trade and Development provides a review of the current understanding of …

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper …

regressions, we find robust associations with inflation as well as financial sector development in the short and long-run, trade …/GDP in the long-run. The GMM results point only to inflation and trade as significant drivers in the long-run and investment … inflation and high trade openness take on a more critical role than government spending. Our results suggest that rudiments of …

neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs … relationship between trade and FDI and growth. In this review we find no support for hard interventions that distort prices to deal …