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trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel … to assess the response of South African firms to trade policy changes and demand shocks in destination markets between … firm level. Also, trade liberalisation policies in the destination country positively affect the number of exported goods …
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expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …
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from 1990 to 2014. Empirical results were insignificant to explain the long-run relationship between South Africa’s trade …, direct foreign investment and growth with the BRIC countries. The short-run trade effect was little to instil any significant … effect on South Africa’s growth. BRICS trade does not Granger Cause growth in South Africa. Trade and investment policy …
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In this paper we examine the performance of the Irish economy over the period 2008 to 2014. In particular we examine whether the recovery observed was due to the successful adoption of structural reforms in labour and product markets or whether the improved performance was due to a rebalancing...
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from 1990 to 2014. Empirical results were insignificant to explain the long-run relationship between South Africa's trade …, direct foreign investment and growth with the BRIC countries. The short-run trade effect was little to instil any significant … effect on South Africa's growth. BRICS trade does not Granger Cause growth in South Africa. Trade and investment policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853368
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 examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
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This study empirically examines the effect of monetary, fiscal and trade policy on economic growth in Pakistan using … annual time series data from 1981 to 2009. Money supply, government expenditure and trade openness are used as proxies of … monetary, fiscal and trade policy respectively. Cointegration and error correction model indicate the existence of positive …
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This study empirically examines the effect of monetary, fiscal and trade policy on economic growth in Pakistan using … annual time series data from 1981 to 2009. Money supply, government expenditure and trade openness are used as proxies of … monetary, fiscal and trade policy respectively. Cointegration and error correction model indicate the existence of positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203639
The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness and economic growth in host countries remains … indicate that there is no significant Granger causality from FDI to economic growth, from economic growth to FDI, from trade to … economic growth and from economic growth to trade in the short run. Even though there is a widespread belief that FDI can …
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