Growth Gains from Trade

This data set has been used to estimate the growth effect of trade. We bifurcate trade openness into openness with respect to intermediate inputs and openness with respect to final goods and find that it is the former which matters for sectoral productivity growth. Data sources used : KLEMS, World Input Output Database (WIOD) , UNCTAD TRAINS (accessed through WITS) , World Bank Database, UN COMTRADE (accessed through WITS), World Governance Indicators (WGI) project, World Bank, World development Indicators (WDI), World Bank, Penn World Table (PWT) version 9.1