A meta-analysis of the export growth hypothesis

Mookerjee, Rajen

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2005.12.020

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“…The tools are surveyed in Hunter and Schmidt (2004). Applications in economics include Görg and Strobl (2001), Roberts and Stanley (2005), Mookerjee (2006), and Disdier and Head (2008). 4.…”

Section: Estimation and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development Aid and Growth: An Association Converging to Zero

Doucouliagos

2009

SSRN Journal

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ABSTRACT:This note deals with a paradox: A literature growing exponentially in spite of the fact that it keeps finding the same result. We draw upon the findings of 106 empirical studies, of which 32 appeared in the last 4 years, to examine whether development aid generates economic growth. The studies report aid effects that have been steadily falling over time. The newer studies find a steady continuation of the downward trend. Using meta-regression analysis, we show that total aid has never had an effect on economic growth. Theoretically, this result might be due to simultaneity bias, but the evidence does not support this notion. There is some evidence that some aid components do have a positive effect on growth. JEL:F35

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Section: Estimation and Resultsmentioning

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Development Aid and Growth: An Association Converging to Zero

Doucouliagos

2009

SSRN Journal

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“…Two more recent studies have used meta-analysis to evaluate ELG studies and have more positive findings. Mookerjee (2006) examined 76 ELG studies; he found overall that exports were significantly correlated with growth. Sannassee et al (2014) used metaanalysis on 82 ELG studies.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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“…Mookerjee's (2006) meta-analysis examined not only aggregate exports but manufactured and oil exports, and found that use of these measures of exports tended to strengthen the relationship with GDP growth. Since we were not able to find surveys of these studies other than Mookerjee, we cite a few examples.…”

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Does the commodities boom support the export led growth hypothesis? Evidence from Latin American countries

2016

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Commodity prices are characterized by boom and bust cycles. In this article, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity exports (agricultural raw materials, fuel, food, ore and minerals) as well as manufactured exports. Latin American and Caribbean economies had higher growth during the 2000s than in the period before the commodities boom. This study examines whether the higher growth was explained by the commodity boom, and if so, which of the different export commodities accounted for this higher growth. The findings should be relevant to understanding the effects on economic growth of a possible bust in commodity prices. The results show that ore and mineral exports, fuel exports and food exports generally had a negative effect on GDP per capita growth but ore and mineral exports had a positive effect on LAC countries during the boom. During the boom period, agricultural exports had negative effects, especially for LAC countries. Fuel exports had a positive effect on LAC and non-LAC countries during the boom. Manufacturing exports in general had a positive effect on economic growth, but in the boom period this effect almost disappeared for the LAC countries.

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“…According to Ben-David and Loewy (1998), the solution to the above question arguably depends on the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis which postulates that exports expansion, especially of manufactured goods, is a key factor in promoting economic growth. According to Mookerjee (2006), the exports-growth nexus elicited more controversy and interest in the last three decades than any other area of academic research. Both theoretical and empirical literature available to date lack consensus in as far as the direction of causality between exports and economic growth is concerned, argued Mookerjee (2006).…”

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“…According to Mookerjee (2006), the exports-growth nexus elicited more controversy and interest in the last three decades than any other area of academic research. Both theoretical and empirical literature available to date lack consensus in as far as the direction of causality between exports and economic growth is concerned, argued Mookerjee (2006). What is clear is that the policies based on the full understanding of the exports-growth nexus have the ability to lift millions of the world's poor out of poverty (Berg and Krueger, 2002).…”

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A dynamic causality test of exports and economic growth in Zimbabwe

Tsaurai

Odhiambo

2012

IJEPEE

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Abstract:In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between export growth and economic growth. The causal relationship between exports and economic growth has been a subject of extensive debate in recent years. There are currently three dominant views regarding the relationship between exports and economic growth. The first view maintains that it is the growth of exports that drives economic growth. The second view argues that it is economic growth that spurs exports expansion; while the third view maintains that both exports and economic growth promote one another. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-bounds testing approach, we find that there is a distinct causal flow from export growth to economic growth in Zimbabwe -both in the short run and in the long run. We therefore recommend that policies, which are geared towards export promotion should be intensified, in order to promote long-term economic growth in Zimbabwe.

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A meta-analysis of the export growth hypothesis

Cited by 68 publications

References 7 publications

Development Aid and Growth: An Association Converging to Zero

Development Aid and Growth: An Association Converging to Zero

Does the commodities boom support the export led growth hypothesis? Evidence from Latin American countries

A dynamic causality test of exports and economic growth in Zimbabwe

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