, greater openness of the economy, and macroeconomic stability are indispensable. …

in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the …

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …

The question whether international openness causes higher domestic growth has been subject to intense discussions in …s and the lower international openness of East Germany are linked. We address the endogeneity of openness by adapting … the methodology proposed by Frankel and Romer (1999) in a panel framework. We instrument openness with time …

In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments … we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the … with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. …

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and … show that openness has a greater impact on TFP growth than R&D. These results imply that the impact of openness on TFP in …

This paper examines different explanations - initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions - of the … Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading … or incomplete. Even when correctly articulated, openness appears to be a proximate rather than an underlying explanation …