. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …The pre-eminence of trade and investment in the economic prosperity of developed and developing countries cannot be …

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 … be transformed in order to obtain larger growth benefits as in the case of the other country groups. Second, trade …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

demand and growth. As a result, the collapse of exports to the US and other industrialized countries during the global … financial and economic crisis has sharply curtailed gross domestic product (GDP) growth across the region. The emergence of the … an additional source of demand and growth. The central objective of this paper is to use vector autoregression (VAR …

German regional data (NUTS 1 level) for GDP, trade, and FDI activity during the period 1976-2005. Applying various … homogeneous and heterogeneous panel data estimators to a Spatial Panel Error Correction Model (SpECM) for regional output growth … equation, the empirical results support the hypothesis of export- and FDI-led growth. We also show that for export and outward …

Investment is a major determinant of economic growth, both in reference to the level of the capital stock and its … levels of foreign direct investment (FDI), and a low impact of such investment on growth. The paper focuses on sub …, especially FDI; the type of regulatory and business environment most conducive to growth-enhancing investment; and the …

do not show any auto-correlation. The trade and foreign investment variables have a significant impact on the growth rate …The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita … of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology … capital. The model nests structural gravity subsystems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …