Economic Growth, FDI, Trade Openness, and Inequality: Standing of Asian Economies

Trade Openness And Economic Growth In Iran, And Some OPEC Nations

The Influence of Trade Openness the Economic Growth of Former Soviet Union Countries

This paper tries to test the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Former Soviet Union countries after their independence in 1991. It has become an article of faith in most economic and political circles that opening up the economy to international trade will produce substantial benefits in terms of greater consumer choice and higher living standards. Higher productivity is...

Does More International Trade Openness Worsen Inequality

Does freer trade increase income inequality within countries, perhaps sufficiently to offset any benefits to the poor from higher overall per capita income? Figure 4 suggests that there is no simple association between changes in trade openness and changes in inequality. Certainly there are many well known cases of countries where inequality has risen as they became more integrated into the wor...

Openness of Trade, Unemployment and Inequality of Income Distribution: Comparison between Developed and Developing Countries

In the discussions of trading, unemployment and income distribution inequality, this question is raised by economists that in economic development of developing and developed countries, which policy is necessary in the first stage. Is trading liberalization the pre-requirement of transfer from a close economy to a relative open economy and is it necessary for the developed economy compared to o...

Causal relationship between trade openness, economic growth and energy consumption: A panel data analysis of Asian countries

This paper explores the causal relationship between economic growth, trade openness and energy consumption using data of 15 Asian countries. The study covers the period of 1980–2011. We have applied panel cointegration and causality approaches to examine the long-run and causal relationship between variables. Empirical results confirm the presence of cointegration between variables. The impact ...