Do openness and human capital accumulation promote economic growth? While intuition argues yes, the existing empirical … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to … price distortion and increasing openness. Human capital plays a smaller role in enhancing growth through total factor …

show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …

This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively … depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be … measured by the residual of an openness function estimated only from structural factors, and on structural vulnerability …

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …

Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market … at achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the long run. …

effects of FDI on productivity growth. This paper contributes to the existing studies by applying the rho's rank correlation … and causality test in exploring the possible links between FDI and economic growth in Nigeria. We determined the … economic growth in Nigeria is very weak. By disaggregating FDI data by sectors however, FDI was found to have contributed to …