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ABSTRACT
This study examined the relationship between exports and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. It employed innovative econometric methods, including the Fourier ADF with structural break test, a comparative analysis of three causality tests and a rolling causality test procedure. The findings suggested that there was a statistically significant relationship between exports and economic growth in several Sub-Saharan countries. However, the causal linkages between exports and economic growth in these countries were found to be weak and unstable. These empirical results have some notable policy implications.
Acknowledgment
The Ox program was used to analyse the data. We are grateful to Professor Jurgen A. Doornik of Oxford University for providing OxEdit free of charge for academic purposes.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1. The following 25 countries were excluded from the analysis: Angola, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda and Zambia.