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Objective: This study examines the impact of trade policy on export diversification of economic sectors in Nigeria over … and the Herfindal formula to compute the export diversification index. Findings: The results of the study show that trade … policy has a significant impact on export diversification of the oil sector, while the impact of trade policy on export …
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approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade …-run relationship reveal the existence of a positive and statistically significant relationship between trade openness and economic … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …
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This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by employing bounds testing approach to level relationships. In Iran, there have been many unusual policy changes and/or external shocks to the economy; this has resulted in the...
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Entwicklungsländern wird seit drei Jahrzehnten die Diversifizierung ihrer Exportstruktur empfohlen. Exportdiversifizierung soll nachhaltiges Wachstum ermöglichen und eine Verringerung der wirtschaftlichen Instabilität durch den Abbau wachstumshemmender Einflussfaktoren herbeiführen. Der...
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and its major trading partners. Devaluation or depreciation of a currency worsens the trade balance before improving it … (increase in real effective exchange rate) is accompanied only by positive change in trade balance with no deterioration under … initial value. On the bilateral level, there exists J- curve in trade with Hungary. …
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This study examines the tripartite relationship between financial development, trade openness and economic growth in … development, trade openness and economic growth, thereby supporting finance- and trade-led growth hypotheses for Ghana, Nigeria … and South Africa. Moreover, long-run causality from financial development and economic growth to trade openness is found …
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trade balance between Brazil and the USA, as the dependent variable, are cointegrated in the long-run. The empirical … USA. The real depreciations of the Brazilian currency do not make a positive contribution to the trade balance for Brazil. …
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This study aims to investigate the impact of supply-side factors on the export performance of Pakistan at a disaggregated level. It has identified major export categories of Pakistan and constructed a novel time-series data set of each of these categories from 1971 to 2014. Using autoregressive...
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that Nigerian economic growth is trade constrained? How important is export to growth?. This study investigates these, its … ensures the reflection of the current government’s trade decisions and trade activities; these are missing in other studies … import both in the short and long run, implying that Nigeria imports more than it earns. Exchange rate and terms of trade are …
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