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Does Foreign Direct Investment really affect Ghana’s Economic Growth?

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  • Bondzie, Eric Amoo
  • Fosu, Gabriel Obed
  • Asare Okyere, Gabriel

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In this paper, we investigate the linkage between FDI and economic growth using macro econometric model in the Ghanaian context. Structural shocks in an SVAR model were used to identify the contemporaneous and short run relationships effects of these variables. The AB model restriction approach was used for the Identification and was compared to the Cholesky decomposition. We showed that, there exit a contemporaneous short run positive effects of FDI inflows on GDP growth but as the time horizon expands these effects tend to converge to the equilibrium, however FDI’s deteriorate domestic investment.

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  • Bondzie, Eric Amoo & Fosu, Gabriel Obed & Asare Okyere, Gabriel, 2014. "Does Foreign Direct Investment really affect Ghana’s Economic Growth?," MPRA Paper 69237, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Foreign Direct Investment; Gross Domestic Product; Impulses Responses; Structural VAR.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • F62 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Macroeconomic Impacts
    • O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy

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