01869cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002849 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451844412 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Arora, Vivek. How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Economic Growth? / Vivek Arora, Athanasios Vamvakidis. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2004. 1 online resource (21 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper empirically examines the extent to which a country's economic growth is influenced by its trading partner economies. Panel estimation results based on four decades of data for over 100 countries show that trading partners' growth and relative income levels have a strong effect on domestic growth, even after controlling for the influence of common global and regional trends. One interpretation is that conditional convergence is stronger, the richer are a country's trading partners. A general implication of the results is that industrial countries benefit from trading with developing countries, which grow rapidly, while developing countries benefit from trading with industrial countries, which have relatively high incomes. Mode of access: Internet United Kingdom imf Vamvakidis, Athanasios. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2004/026 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2004/026/001.2004.issue-026-en.xml IMF e-Library