期刊名称：Journal of Economics and International Finance
电子版ISSN：2006-9812
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：146-156
语种：English
出版社：Academic Journals
摘要：The extent to which trade openness and foreign aid impacts on economic growth, has for years been an issue of global debate. Being one of the forerunners to adopt liberalisation policies in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana’s post-liberalisation economic growth performance has received commendations from international institutions. This has increased government commitment in recent years to open the economy to international competition. Moreover, foreign aid inflow over the period has been relatively large. This paper employs the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration, to investigate the extent to which trade openness and the inflow of foreign aid, impact on economic growth in post-liberalisation Ghana. The paper finds that this effect is positive and statistically significant in both the short-run and the long run, although reduced by their interaction.
