Purpose: This study investigates empirically the impact of export product concentration (or diversification) on social protection expenditure in both developed and developing countries. The analysis further explores whether this effect depends on countries' degree of openness to international...

Purpose: This study aims to use a quantitative measure of trade policy space to investigate empirically whether trade policy space influences foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to countries. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical analysis covers an unbalanced panel data set of 158...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate empirically how international tourism receipts influence public revenue, in particular non-resource revenue. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis relies on an unbalanced panel of 156 countries (including both developed and developing countries) over...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the effect of development aid volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) volatility in aid recipient countries. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical analysis has relied on a sample of 117 countries over the period 1981–2016 and used the two-step...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the behavior of governments in terms of trade policy design when they experience a lack of foreign resources from international trade after ensuring the sustainability of their external debt. To do so, the paper defines two concepts of trade...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of multilateral trade policy (MTP) liberalization on developing countries’ economic exposure to shocks. Design/methodology/approach: The analysis is conducted on a panel data set comprising 120 countries over the period 1996–2013...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine empirically whether the impact of multilateral trade liberalization on export performance and export performance convergence in developing countries depends on the amount of Aid for Trade (AfT) flows that accrue to these countries. Export...