This paper investigates the determinants of private investment in Senegal over the period of 1970-2000. It first tests the variables for unit root using two, relatively, new tests namely the Dickey-Fuller generalised least square de-trending test proposed by Elliot et al. (1996) and the...

This paper examines the impact of trade openness on economic growth using a new measure of trade openness proposed by Squalli1 and Wilson (2011). In contrast to the vast majority of the existing literature, the new measure of trade openness accounts for not only the country trade share of its...