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This is a sumamry of Francisco Rodriguez and Dani Rodrik’s 1999 paper, “Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic’s guide to Cross-National Evidence”, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It is available in full at http://www.nber.org/papers/w7081
 
Several recent studies have investigated the systematic relation between growth and trade or growth and liberalization using empirical […]

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