The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra … estimates show tariffs are not a constraint on ECOWAS countries' export supply. From these results, we conclude that the low … export diversification of ECOWAS economies remains the major constraint on their capacity to supply the intra-regional market …

export- and investment-led economy to a domestic demand- and consumption-led growth paradigm. While there are widespread …

Using a panel of 139 countries over the period 1992-2003, we analyse the links between export productivity, economic … exert a positive and significant effect on export productivity. Except for Brazil, financial development is not an important … determinant of export productivity. Moreover, except for Brazil, export productivity plays a positive effect on growth, and so …

role of export concentration. Four important results are obtained from the empirical analysis. First, there is no empirical … evidence that exports to China enhance growth unconditionally. Second, the results suggest that export concentration enhances … the growth effects of exporting to China, implying that countries which export one major commodity to China benefit more …

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …

property rights and embedded in physical goods is not recorded as either export or import of any country. Hence, current trade … actual US export capacity in the age of global value chains. According to our analysis of this case, if the value added of …