Trade openness and long-term economic growth

Abstract

Which are the structural factors that make it possible to explain why the trade aperture in El Salvador has not produced high and sustainable economic growth rates? In the following paper, the main hypothesis is that the influential factors in trade aperture and economic growth in El Salvador are related with a structural tendency to deterioration in trade balance.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 124, 2010: 269-295