Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia

This paper examines the role of trade openness and foreign direct investment in relation to economic growth for Pakistan and Malaysia for the period 1980-2010. Johansen co-integration test is used to estimate the nature of relationship and Granger causality test is used to determine the direction of...

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Main Authors: Zaheer Khan KAKAR, Bashir Ahmad KHILJI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2011-11-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/661.pdf
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spelling doaj-75afa52f8dd14a19970a7d7b5c8613122020-11-24T21:04:09ZengGeneral Association of Economists from RomaniaTheoretical and Applied Economics1841-86781844-00292011-11-01XVIII11535818418678Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and MalaysiaZaheer Khan KAKAR0Bashir Ahmad KHILJI1 National University of Modern Languages Islamabad, Pakistan National University of Modern Languages Islamabad, Pakistan This paper examines the role of trade openness and foreign direct investment in relation to economic growth for Pakistan and Malaysia for the period 1980-2010. Johansen co-integration test is used to estimate the nature of relationship and Granger causality test is used to determine the direction of causality in the model. http://store.ectap.ro/articole/661.pdf trade opennessforeign direct investmenteconomic growthco-integrationGranger causality
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author Zaheer Khan KAKAR
Bashir Ahmad KHILJI
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Bashir Ahmad KHILJI
Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
Theoretical and Applied Economics
trade openness
foreign direct investment
economic growth
co-integration
Granger causality
author_facet Zaheer Khan KAKAR
Bashir Ahmad KHILJI
author_sort Zaheer Khan KAKAR
title Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
title_short Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
title_full Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
title_fullStr Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of FDI and Trade Openness on Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Malaysia
title_sort impact of fdi and trade openness on economic growth: a comparative study of pakistan and malaysia
publisher General Association of Economists from Romania
series Theoretical and Applied Economics
issn 1841-8678
1844-0029
publishDate 2011-11-01
description This paper examines the role of trade openness and foreign direct investment in relation to economic growth for Pakistan and Malaysia for the period 1980-2010. Johansen co-integration test is used to estimate the nature of relationship and Granger causality test is used to determine the direction of causality in the model.
topic trade openness
foreign direct investment
economic growth
co-integration
Granger causality
url http://store.ectap.ro/articole/661.pdf
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