Trade Openness and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Markus Brueckner; Daniel Lederman

doi:10.1111/ecca.12160

Trade Openness and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Markus Brueckner, Daniel Lederman

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This paper uses an instrumental variables approach to estimate the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Instrumental variables estimates show that economic growth has a significant negative contemporaneous effect on trade openness, while trade openness has a significant positive effect on economic growth. A 1 percentage point increase in the ratio of trade over GDP is associated with a short-run increase in growth of approximately 0.5% in a given year; the cumulative long-run effect on the level of GDP per capita is larger, reaching about 2%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1302-1323
Number of pages	22
Journal	Economica
Volume	82
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12160
State	Published - 1 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

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