The pre-eminence of trade and investment in the economic prosperity of developed and developing countries cannot be … 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 …

The paper empirically examines the differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment based on cross …-country data. In general, the results are largely consistent with the positive impact of trade on economic growth as found in the … literature. However, the empirical results based on different categories of countries show that whereas trade has positively …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …

The endogenous growth literature has stimulated empirical research into links between trade and growth in general and … in the recipient. We also find that the level of trade is important in facilitating knowledge spillovers from donors to …

of internet use on trade. The present study challenges the first finding by showing that internet use does not explain … economic growth directly in a fully specified growth model. In particular openness to international trade variables seems to be … highly correlated with internet use and the findings in the literature that internet use causes trade is confirmed here …

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country … diverse interpretations. In many cases, the indicators of "openness" used by researchers are poor measures of trade barriers … the link between trade policy and growth have serious shortcomings. Papers that we review include Dollar (1992), Ben …

This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …