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 …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

contributions and group them in four research directions: overall economic implications of Brexit; Brexit and trade; migration and …

This study empirically examines the effect of monetary, fiscal and trade policy on economic growth in Pakistan using … annual time series data from 1981 to 2009. Money supply, government expenditure and trade openness are used as proxies of … monetary, fiscal and trade policy respectively. Cointegration and error correction model indicate the existence of positive …

This study empirically examines the effect of monetary, fiscal and trade policy on economic growth in Pakistan using … annual time series data from 1981 to 2009. Money supply, government expenditure and trade openness are used as proxies of … monetary, fiscal and trade policy respectively. Cointegration and error correction model indicate the existence of positive …

trade restrictions. Recent work, notably Rodriguez and Rodrik (2000), asserts that all the evidence is fragile, implying … that economists who believe that trade restrictions played a role in this poor performance do so largely on faith. This … for the question or are bound to have low statistical power. After revising and updating measures of trade openness used …

The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness and economic growth in host countries remains … indicate that there is no significant Granger causality from FDI to economic growth, from economic growth to FDI, from trade to … economic growth and from economic growth to trade in the short run. Even though there is a widespread belief that FDI can …