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The Role of Services Trade in Economic Development

Philip O. Alege, Adeyemi A. Ogundipe

Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · pp. 350–365 · Published 30 Oct 2014

10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13474

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to investigate the impact of services trade on economic development of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries. Our analysis is based on a panel data framework over the period 1990 to 2010 covering thirty-three countries. The paper employs the endogenous growth model to examine the nonlinearities associated with services exports and services imports in the economic development process of SSA countries under consideration. The trade data was disaggregated into travel, transport and other services. The panel data constructed was estimated using ordinary pooled, fixed effects and random effects model techniques and the efficient model was selected based on the Hausman test. The paper finds that both services exports and services imports enhance economic development process. The study also indicates that labour and capital play an important role in the SSA economies.  

Economic development services trade panel data analysis

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