Relationship between Exports and Economic Growth in Mali An Econometric Analysis

This study aims to examine the relationship between Exports and Economic Growth and their causality in the context of Mali. The model VAR is employed. Using time series techniques, the stationarity properties of the data sets are tested, followed by Johansen and Jesulius Cointegration analysis to examine long term relationship between the two variables. The study finds a cointegrating relationship between exports and economic growth. Moreover, Granger causality tests suggest that Economic growth causes Exports in case of Mali. The impulse response function has been traced out for both the variables and forecast variance decomposition to estimate of the shock in each variable to the response in both variables