of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution …-level research, and case studies) supports the view that trade openness contributes greatly to growth. Moreover, trade openness does … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …

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 …, openness appears to be a proximate rather than an underlying explanation for the Mauritian experience. The institution …

economies in the 1990s. Second, increasing financial openness is associated with rising relative volatility of consumption, but …