researchers an additional analytical tool to study the impact of dynamic changes such as inter- national trade trends and …

There are common narratives about economic growth in Ethiopia. We analyze four common narratives, namely, that (1) the … economy is transforming from agriculture to industry, (2) that national economic growth has been rapid and sustained, (3) that …

and Chinese FDI to African countries. The benign impacts of the China-Africa trade and Chinese FDI on economic growth to … debate on how to portray the relationship. Thus, this study is aimed to examine the impacts of the China-Africa trade and … Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of African countries controlling the mediating role of institutional …

overemphasized. Many studies have shown a strong positive impact of trade on economic growth across developed and the emerging market …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …

approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness … indices. At the policy level, these results show that encouraging more trade and imports that embody technology or …

of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital structure policy. We use Jovanovic's model (1982) that relates growth …, age and size, as used by Heshmati (2001), to which we add a dummy indicating financial conservatism. As the growth of a …

Economic growth is essential, though not sufficient, for poverty reduction in developing countries. Research based on … many different approaches and including both cross- country and intra-country studies shows that international trade can … contribute to economic growth, and thus can help many poor people escape poverty. However, the domestic environment has to be …

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the … firms farther from the frontier try to imitate more productive technologies. The equilibrium choice leads to a balanced-growth …