بررسي آثار تجارت خارجي بر رشد اقتصادي ايران

A Survey of Foreign Trade Effects on Iranʹs Economic Growth

Foreign trade and its relation to economic growth is one of the very controversial subjects especially when it comes to choose among the development strategies in the developing countries, and still there is no consensus among economists as to how trade policies are related to economic growth rate. In the modern theories and endogenous growth models, international trade economic openness affects economic growth rate through getting access to foreign markets, technology and resources. The spotlight of this paper is on analyzing the effects of international trade on economic growth. Having analyzed the literature and theoretical fundamentals of trade and growth, the author reveals that according to the surveys on the world trade and production, the growth of trade transactions volume has been more than that of world production. This, in turn, shows that world production is made mostly according to the trade motivations. and hence the outward-oriented approaches to the world economic growth and development have gained more importance. Meanwhile, it was revealed that Iranʹs share in imports and exports is little in proportion to the world, and in the imports composition, there has been too much reliance on intermediate nd capital for a lung-run period.