his empirical study consists of an econometric test of the complementary effect of trade and education on long run … estimator of trade openness. Regressions are run on a long term panel data base (100 years, 10 OECD countries) reconciling the …

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer … between donor- and receiving countries. In this context, trade in (capital) goods allows technology import and improved input … decisions. Second, trade opens export markets, allowing learning-by-doing. Third and most importantly, trade increases the set …

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions are controlled for, trade is almost always insignificant, and often enters the income equation with the 'wrong' (i …

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 …

neoliberalism has not succeeded in maximizing the benefits of exports, and that the expansion of trade multiplier effects has been …

from 1990 to 2014. Empirical results were insignificant to explain the long-run relationship between South Africa's trade …, direct foreign investment and growth with the BRIC countries. The short-run trade effect was little to instil any significant … effect on South Africa's growth. BRICS trade does not Granger Cause growth in South Africa. Trade and investment policy …

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …

approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade …-run relationship reveal the existence of a positive and statistically significant relationship between trade openness and economic … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …