Trade Liberalization and Manufacturing Growth in Malaysia A Cointegration Analysis

Trade Liberalisation and Industrial Growth in Pakistan: A Cointegration Analysis

Using the framework of an endogenous growth model, this paper empirically analyses the relationship between trade policies and industrial growth in Pakistan during the period 1973-1995. The cointegration and error correction modelling approaches have been applied. The empirical results suggest that there exists a unique long-run relationship among the aggregate growth function of industrial val...

Trade liberalization, Growth and Inequality in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis

This paper examines time series evidence to establish a link between trade, economic growth and income inequality in Bangladesh. The empirical results from a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model suggest that there is some evidence of trade liberalization accelerating growth in Bangladesh. Trade openness promotes investment. We find little evidence of trade affecting income distribution or of incom...

Trade Liberalization, Privatization and Economic Growth

“ Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization :

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR period and the years since independence revealed that unlike its close neighbors (the Baltic States a...

Trade Liberalization . . . A Panel Study of the Mexican Manufacturing Industry

In recent y ears there has been a revival of interest in the trade-growth nexus. A number of authors have suggested that regional economic integration and liberalization of international trade are likely to have positive eects not only on productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing industries, this paper exa...