the negative consequences of adverse geography, improve trade facilitation to exploit learning-by-exporting from intra …-African trade, and facilitate urbanization. …

explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

innovation leveraged off the country’s strong primary industry knowledge base. Continuing to raise skill levels and the …

The paper estimates a conditional ß-convergence model of labor productivity growth in Italy's manufacturing industry …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …

This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving … force of Korea's economic growth since the 1960's and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on … bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In regard to this, this study measures the impact of Korea's trade openness on …

This study is an attempt to test the hypothesis “international trade contributes to economic growth through its effects … capital is sensitive to change in trade policies. Unlike conventional approaches, the model serves to assess and determine the … impact of international trade on the accumulation of human capital. The empirical analysis estimates dynamic panel growth …

In this paper, the literature on trade and development is surveyed, especially that regarding the role of … complementarities associated with trade infrastructure. The empirical literature shows that, on average, trade causes growth, but the … investment in soft and hard infrastructure has an unambiguously positive impact on trade flows, the theoretical literature argues …