growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …, more openness, exports and imports lead to increased economic growth. This implies that a significant proportion of … economic growth in Uganda has been due to short-run increase in the country's openness, more exports and imports. This paper …

This paper applies a two-step Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) to re-examine the causality between defense burden … (MB) and real GDP (RY) for 137 countries. The findings indicate that a short-run causality running from MB to RY is found … short-run causality is found in Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean and the Middle East & North Africa. No causality …

literature. Our causality tests provide little or no support for a causal relationship between openness and aggregate or …

1972 and 2008. The Granger's non-causality tests support ELG as well as the growth-led exports. Also, there is causality … from imports growth to exports growth. The study also presents the results of impulse response functions and variance …The study examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for Cambodia. The sample covers annual observations between …

Export growth in India has been much faster than GDP growth over the past few decades. Several factors appear to have … through which FDI influences growth. Using annual data for 1970-98 we investigate the determinants of export performance in … India in a simultaneous equation framework. Results suggest that demand for Indian exports increases when its export prices …

and national ownership patterns. On the second question, the sensitivity of exports to labour costs is lower in high tech …

industries, which account for 45% of all Spanish exports. Finally, granularity explains around one-third of the growth in Spanish …Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in … 2015 the top 200 firms were responsible for half of Spanish exports. This concentration has not changed substantially over …

most recent financial crisis, estimating models for export market participation decisions and firm growth and survival. The … the global financial crisis. With respect to firm growth and survival, we find that starters and continuous exporters are …