Cointegrating and causality relationship between exports and economic growth: case for Botswana
Oscar Chiwira,
Lovemore Muchingami,
Lawrence Jambani
Abstract:The study employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds model to test for cointegration and the Toda and Yamamoto and Dolado and Lütkepohl (TYDL) model to examine the direction of causality between exports and economic growth for Botswana covering the period 1980 to 2021. Exports statistically positively affect economic growth both in the short-run and long-run and trade openness is detrimental to economic growth both in the short-run and long-run. Economic growth promotes exports both in the short… Show more
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