Exports, Outward-Oriented Development, and Economic Growth

Exports and Economic Growth

Uutilizing unit root and cointegration techniques, we find out of 96 countries only 8 show unidirectional or bidirectional causality from exports to GDP with positive relationship between the two variables. Causality from GDP to Exports with positive relationship between the two variables is found for only 9 countries.

Shipping Costs, Manufactured Exports, and Economic Growth

(1979) on OECD countries; Brodsky and Sampson (1979) and Yeats (1976) on Latin America and Asia; and, more recently, Amjadi and Yeats (1995), Amjadi, Reincke, and Yeats (1996), and UNCTAD (1995) on sub-Saharan Africa. These studies document differences in shipping costs but do not directly estimate the relationship between shipping costs and manufactured exports or economic growth. Steven Radel...

Financial Repression, Economic Growth and Development

Economic growth and development of market, stock exchange and related variables are among components which influence on business, economic activities and management of society. Financial repression is among economic variables greatly influencing on financial market specifically capital market and economic growth and development; so that, this concept caused to publish financial growth and devel...

Exports, Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Outward FDI and home country economic growth: a Malaysian case

This paper attempts to explore the causality relationship between outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and home country economic growth using Malaysia as a case. The main findings do not advocate the OFDI-led growth hypothesis. In order to promote OFDI-led growth, the home government should prepare the private sector for increasing competition in the era of globalization so that linkages ca...