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 … traditional cross country growth regressions where we use trade data to construct the two trade openness indices for 174 countries …

'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and consider policy options for escaping economic stagnation. The focus is … on South Africa and South African policies yielding relatively quick dividends in terms of growth and taking the rest of …

-proportions trade vi) the world trade-to-output ratio increases over time. I argue that standard economic theories ignore the vast …

There are common narratives about economic growth in Ethiopia. We analyze four common narratives, namely, that (1) the … economy is transforming from agriculture to industry, (2) that national economic growth has been rapid and sustained, (3) that …