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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Effects of Trade Openness on Economic Growth: The Case of African Countries
Autores: | Yeboah,   Osei-Agyeman; Naanwaab,   Cephas B.; Saleem,   Shaik; Akuffo,   Akua S.
Data: | 2012-01-18
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Trade Openness; Productivity; Africa; Cobb Douglas Production Function.; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Productivity Analysis.
Resumo: | The relationship between trade and productivity has not been established theoretically.  Some researchers have indeed found some, if not complete, support for the view that increasing openness has a positive impact on productivity.  This study used a Cobb-Douglas production function as in Miller and Upadhyay (2000) to estimate the impact of FDI, exchange rate, capital-labor ratio and trade openness on GDP for 38 African countries from 1980 to 2008.  Data were transformed to natural logs and estimated   using alternative panel models; which included one- or-two-way fixed or random effects models.  The results found trade openness having a positive relationship with GDP; which is comparable to findings of Ahmed et al.; (2008).
Tipo: | Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/119795
Relação: | Southern Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2012 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2012, Birmingham, Alabama
Formato: | 24