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dc.contributor.authorJoshua, Udi
dc.contributor.authorAdedoyin, Festus F.
dc.contributor.authorSarkodie, Samuel Asumadu
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-07T12:17:07Z
dc.date.available2020-07-07T12:17:07Z
dc.date.created2020-05-22T08:03:26Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationJoshua, U., Adedoyin, F. F. & Sarkodie, S. A. (2020). Examining the external-factors-led growth hypothesis for the South African economy. Heliyon, 6(5): e4009. doi:en_US
dc.identifier.issn2405-8440
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2660979
dc.description.abstractReducing unemployment rate and achieving a sustainable economic growth underscore the Sustainable Development Goal 8. Our study investigates a new model that specifies the external-factors-led growth hypothesis for the South African economy. The independent variables include trade openness, external debt, FDI and exchange rate against GDP as the targeted variable. The ARDL approach was adopted after achieving a mixed order of integration from the stationarity test using traditional unit root tests. All external factors were found to exert a positive influence on economic expansion. Trade openness and exchange rate specifically, exert significant influence on economic growth, which means that an improvement in these factors will proportionately favour economic expansion. In essence, a 1% improvement in trade openness and exchange rate will generate an equivalent of 0.30% and 0.19% increase in GDP in the long-run. On average, trade openness, exchange rate and external loan are beneficial to the economy of South Africa. Thus, recommend the need for the authority concern to open more line of bilateral trade to enable the economy to fully tap from the benefits accrued from indulging in economic openness.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleExamining the external-factors-led growth hypothesis for the South African economyen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212en_US
dc.source.pagenumber8en_US
dc.source.volume6en_US
dc.source.journalHeliyonen_US
dc.source.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04009
dc.identifier.cristin1812099
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