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Export and Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: The Granger Causality Test

Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research

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Title Export and Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: The Granger Causality Test
 
Creator Alhakimi, Saif Sallam
 
Subject
Growth, Export, Co-integration, Error-correction, Causality.

 
Description An export-led growth strategy aims to encourage producers to export their goods through various economic and governmental policies. This study was carried out with the primary objective of investigating the relationship between exports and economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (hereafter referred to as the KSA), specifically by examining the causality between exports and KSA’s economic growth. There are four main propositions for the relationship between exports and economic growth: export-led growth (ELG), growth-driven exports (GDE), and feedback relationships between exports and economic growth. To complete this study, samples were used based on 37 years of annual data. The study also employed a unit root test, a co-integration test, and the Granger causality test to observe the causal relationship between exports and economic growth. Data were collected for exports, which were expressed according to export growth. Economic growth, meanwhile, was measured according to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and expressed in terms of US dollars. The result of this study found that GDP per capita significantly influenced exports, while exports did not affect GDP.
 
Publisher Asian Online Journal Publishing Group
 
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Date 2018-01-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/1314
10.20448/journal.501.2018.51.29.35
 
Source Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research; Vol 5, No 1 (2018); 29-35
2409-2622
2518-010X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/1314/1210
http://www.asianonlinejournals.com/index.php/AJEER/article/view/1314/remote
 
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https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&imq=&citation_for_view=3v-9kFIAAAAJ:zUl2_INMlC4C

 
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