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Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence

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dc.creator Wacziarg, Romain
dc.creator Horn Welch, Karen
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:12:37Z
dc.date 2008-05-30
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:41:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:41:09Z
dc.identifier World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier 1564-698X
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4477
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249962
dc.description A new data set of on openness indicators and trade liberalization dates allows the 1995 Sachs and Warner study on the relationship between trade openness and economic growth to be extended to the 1990s. New evidence on the time paths of economic growth, physical capital investment, and openness around episodes of trade policy liberalization is also presented. Analysis based on the new data set suggests that over the 1950–98 period, countries that liberalized their trade regimes experienced average annual growth rates that were about 1.5 percentage points higher than before liberalization. Postliberalization investment rates rose 1.5–2.0 percentage points, confirming past findings that liberalization fosters growth in part through its effect on physical capital accumulation. Liberalization raised the average trade to GDP ratio by roughly 5 percentage points, suggesting that trade policy liberalization did indeed raise the actual level of openness of liberalizers. However, these average effects mask large differences across countries.
dc.publisher World Bank
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject capital accumulation
dc.subject developing countries
dc.subject economic liberalization
dc.subject growth rates
dc.subject international trade
dc.subject liberalization
dc.subject physical capital investment
dc.subject public equity
dc.subject share
dc.subject trade
dc.title Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article
dc.coverage Indonesia
dc.coverage China
dc.coverage Mexico
dc.coverage Korea, Republic of
dc.coverage Botswana


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