research and discussions. Experts have argued that the relationship between trade and economic growth in the ECOWAS region is … unclear and the question of whether trade promotes growth and development is controversial. In this paper, an attempt is made … to analyse the impact of trade on economic growth both from a theoretical perspective and using econometric evidence from …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment based on cross …-country data. In general, the results are largely consistent with the positive impact of trade on economic growth as found in the … literature. However, the empirical results based on different categories of countries show that whereas trade has positively …

The objective of this research is to find the long-run association among financial liberalization, international trade … mechanism is employed to analyze the objective of our study. The empirical result shows that both trade liberalization and …

This paper investigates the impact of trade openness on economic growth and development for a sample of 85 middle … trade openness has been one of the main drivers of the level of development, but not of economic growth in middle income … countries. Secondly, that trade openness is both a cause and a consequence of the level of development in middle …

The notion that international trade is the foundation of economic growth dates long back, and even now, an irresistible … body of literature confirms a strong and positive link between trade openness and economic growth. However, most of these … relationship between trade liberalization and economic growth in Afghanistan, using biannual data for the period 1995–2016, and …