Trade Openness and Income – A Re-Examination

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...

Openness and income: The roles of trade and migration☆

Article history: Received 16 September 2012 Received in revised form 14 November 2013 Accepted 23 November 2013 Available online 6 December 2013 JEL classification: F22 J61 O4

An Empirical Examination of Trade Openness and National Environmental Performance

Agriculture Trade Openness and Poverty Reduction: A Cross-Country Analysis

This paper explores the effects of general and agricultural trade openness on economic freedom and alongside with the quality of institutions, on income and poverty. Recent cross-country data for over 200 nations in global regions were used to estimate equations for income, poverty and economic freedom. Economic freedom appears to have positive impacts on income levels, which together with good...

Trade openness, capital openness and government size

This paper provides empirical evidence of the relation between trade openness, capital openness and government expenditures in a cross-sectional time-series context. It is shown that capital openness is significantly and negatively related to government expenditures in line with the conventional wisdom that capital mobility may undermine the ability of governments to maintain larger public sect...