The Effect of FDI and Financial Development Markets on Sub-Sahara African Economy: An Empirical Study Based on VAR Model

This paper investigates the effect of FDI and financial development markets on GDP growth in 35 Sub-Sahara African (SSA) economies over the period 1980-2020. The results in the Vector Autoregression (VAR) Models indicate that FDI has no significant impact on the GDP growth of SSA. However, two varia...

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Main Authors: Farhio Abdukadir Abdi, Ayben Koy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Collaboration (Ömer ÖZKAN, Murat Çemberci, Mustafa Emre Civelek, Nagehan Uca, Okşan Kibritçi) 2023-06-01
Series:Journal of International Trade, Logistics and Law
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Online Access:http://www.jital.org/index.php/jital/article/view/328
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Summary:This paper investigates the effect of FDI and financial development markets on GDP growth in 35 Sub-Sahara African (SSA) economies over the period 1980-2020. The results in the Vector Autoregression (VAR) Models indicate that FDI has no significant impact on the GDP growth of SSA. However, two variables of financial development have got positive significant effect on the economic growth of SSA. Moreover, the result of the granger causality test show that financial development have significant causality effects on the economic growth of SSA.
ISSN:2149-9748