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The relationship between trade openness, foreign direct investment and growth: Case of Malaysia
Baharom, A.H.; Habibullah, M.S.; Royfaizal, R. C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study examines the role of trade openness and foreign direct investment in influencing economic growth in Malaysia … that trade openness is positively associated and statistically significant determinant of growth, both in short run and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619827
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Terms of Trade Volatility and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Awel, Ahmed Mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigated the effect of terms of trade growth and its volatility on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa … terms of trade and income terms of trade as a measure of terms of trade for the entire analysis of this paper. Using data … from 1985 to 2010, I found that the net barter terms of trade and income terms of trade growth has positive and significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107298
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Testing Trade-led-Growth Hypothesis for Romania
Pop-Silaghi, Monica Ioana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper tests the relationship between trade and economic growth for the case of Romania, during 1998-2004. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790475
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Does financial sector development cause investment and growth? empirical analysis of the case of Ghana
Adam, Anokye M.; Siaw, Frimpong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article examines whether financial sector development has ‘caused’ economic growth and investment in Ghana between 1970 and 2007. As a proxy for financial sector development we use credit to private sector as per cent of GDP, bank liquid reserve – asset ratio and liquid liability as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259193
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Causal relationship between saving, investment and economic growth for India – what does the relation imply?
Jangili, Ramesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This study investigates the relationship between saving, investment and economic growth for India over the period 1950 … nature of these causal relationships. The present analysis focuses on India, where saving rate has been the most pronounced … inferred from the results that India is not too close to the technological frontier and hence not catching up with the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259639
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The Validity of the ELG Hypothesis in the MENA Region: Cointegration and Error Correction Model Analysis
Abu-Qarn, Aamer; Abu-Bader, Suleiman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The paper examines the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis for nine Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in three-variable vector autoregressive and error correction models. When considering total exports, our results reject the ELG hypothesis in almost all of these countries. When we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837297
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Determinantes del crecimiento económico del Ecuador bajo la Ley de Thirlwall
Ochoa, Diego; Alvarado, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Thirlwall (1979) argues that the development of a country depends of the rest of the world´s dynamics and the degree of imports openness, which implies that the growth is limited by the current account of the balance of payments. The aim of this study is to estimate the Thirlwall´s affirmation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685363
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The relationship between international tourism and economic growth: the case of Morocco and Tunisia
Bouzahzah, Mohamed; El Menyari, Younesse - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study proposes to examine the impact of tourism activity on the economic growth of Morocco and Tunisia. We contribute here to the empirical literature on the tourism-led growth (TLG) hypothesis, by adopting the error correction model framework, the cointegration and Granger Causality tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108862
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International trade and economic growth in the Polish economy
Gurgul, Henryk; Lach, Łukasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper the results of linear and nonlinear causality examination performed for openness of Polish economy and its economic growth are presented. In order to extract the impact of world crisis on Polish economy we decided to apply two samples (containing quarterly data) – the full sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261117
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Export-Led Growth in Tunisia: A wavelet filtering based analysis
Hamrita, Mohamed Essaied - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we use a wavelet filtering based approach to study the econometric relationship between exports, imports, and economic growth for Tunisia, using quarterly data for the period 1961:1-2007:4. GDP is used as a proxy for economic growth. We explore the interactions between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108527