The present research analyzes the nexus between export upgrading and economic growth. In addition, it studies the moderating role of economies’ level of openness to international trade between export upgrading and economic growth for a group of 131 countries covering the period of 2006-2019....

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, inflow foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness, and unemployment in five South Asian countries between 1998 and 2017 using a vector autoregressive model. It has been empirically...

This paper addresses the role of the U.S. dollar in fostering global economic growth during the post-war period. The existing literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the true implications of the U.S. dollar's status as a reserve currency and a dearth of studies examining its impact. In...

Economists have long debated whether the real exchange rate (RER) has a significant impact on export performance and output growth. Some claim that export performance depends only on nonprice competition and the RER is irrelevant to long-run growth, whereas others argue that the RER is a key...