direct effect of openness on poverty reduction. The results also suggest that the impact of growth on poverty is greater for … transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over …

This paper investigates the influence of international openness on economic growth in a sample of 32 European economies …. The usual approach in the literature on the topic is to observe the impact of trade openness on growth. We, however … openness. Our research, in general, shows that openness is an important determinant of growth in a set of investigated …

The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … growth. Openness in terms of final consumer goods turns out to be insignificant in most specifications. We also estimate … traditional cross country growth regressions where we use trade data to construct the two trade openness indices for 174 countries …