FDI-growth and trade-growth relationships during crises: evidence from Bangladesh

Financial Innovation

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the main variables

Variables	Obs	Mean	SD	Min	Max	Skew	Kurt
GDP	47	77,786.60	53,970.90	23,324.24	214,962.41	1.09	3.13
Exports	47	9459.63	11,057.57	641.95	33,057.42	0.91	2.14
Imports	47	13,854.76	14,656.40	1938.06	45,975.72	0.91	2.22
Total trade	47	26,039.86	23,837.67	2564.73	77,184.48	0.87	2.22
FDI inflow	47	60,529.96	69,328.86	− 1533.29	260,156.00	0.91	2.91
Labor force	47	43.39	14.85	21.35	70.16	0.15	1.76
Capital	47	174,401.23	166,455.60	22,552.00	631,675.00	1.04	3.49
M3	47	35,320.90	36,769.06	1948.44	124,168.80	1.01	2.63

All variables except labor force are in constant 2010 million US$ units. The labor force is simply in million units