There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth. We use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the effects of inequality and trade liberalisation on growth in a sample of exclusively developing countries. Cross-section (long-run) and panel (short run) techniques are used to test for the effect of inequality on growt...

One of the most difficult challenges facing economies developing and wealthy countries alike is concern about economic development, particularly issues growth unemployment. The study concentrated on trinity foreign direct investment, exports, remittances because it one significant factors in international commerce financial transactions main source reserves Jordan. investigated impact investmen...

This study investigated the export-led growth hypothesis in Nigeria. The examined long-run and short-run equilibrium relationships between exports; imports economic over period. used Johansen co-integration technique, granger causality, vector error correction mechanism analysis of data. variables were found to have same order integration empirical evidence strongly suggested existence relation...

This paper investigates the effects of financial development on the intensive and extensive margins of countries exports, at different stages of economic development. The paper develops a partial equilibrium model with monopolistic competition. In this model, firms are heterogeneous in terms of productivity and have access to external liquidity. The effect of financial development on the intens...

Theories suggesting either static or dynamic productivity gains derived from exports often assume the prior existence of a perfect market. In the presence of market failure, however, the competition effect and the resource reallocation effect of exports on productive efficiency may be greatly reduced; and there may actually be disincentives for innovation. This paper analyses the impact of expo...