Reference
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2000). The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation (NBER Working Paper 7771). Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research.
African Development Bank. (2009). Nigeria: 2009-2013 Country Strategy Paper.
African Development Bank. (2009). Ghana: 2007-2011 Country Strategy Paper: Mid-Term Review.
African Economic Outlook. 28 May 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
Ahmad, J. (2001). Causality Between Exports and Economic Growth: What do the Econometric Studies Tell Us? Pacific Economic Review, 6(1), 147-167.
Amoateng, K., & Amoako-Adu, B. (1996). Economic Growth, Export and External Debt Causality: the Case of African Countries. Applied Economics, 28, 21-27.
Awokuse, T.O. (2007). Causality Between Exports, Imports and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Economies. Economics Letters 94:389-95.
Barro, R. (1991). Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(2), 407-443.
Barro, R., & Sala-i-Martin, X. (2004). Economic Growth (Second ed.). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Bhagwati, J. N. (1988). Export-Promoting Trade Strategy: Issues and Evidence. The World Bank Research Observer, 3(1), 27-57.
BoansiDavid, LokononBoris, O. AppahJohn & Gebremariam, G. G. (2014). Economic and Policy Foundations of Agricultural Exports From Ghana: A Cointegration Analysis. International Journal of Development Research Vol. 4, Issue, 6, pp. 1240-1248, June, 2014. ISSN: 2230-9926.
Collier, P., & Gunning, J. W. (1999). Why Has Africa Grown Slowly? The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13(3), 3-22.
Daniel Sakyi, (2011). Trade openness, foreign aid and economic growth in post-liberalisation Ghana: An application of ARDL bounds test, Journal of Economics and International Finance Vol. 3(3), pp. 146-156, March 2011, http://www.academicjournals.org/JEIF ISSN 2006-9812 ©2011 Academic Journals.
Daniel Sakyi, Richmond Commodore & Eric Evans Osei Opoku (2015) Foreign Direct Investment, Trade Openness and Economic Growth in Ghana: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of African Business, 16:1-2, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2015.1061283: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2015.1061283.
Davidson, R., & MacKinnon, J. G. (2004). Econometric Theory and Methods. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dickey D, Fuller W. (1979) Distribution of the estimators for autoregressive time series with a unit root. Journal of American Statisic Association 74; 427_431.
Economist Intelligence Unit. (2008). The Economist Intelligence Unit's Index of Democracy 2008. The Economist.
Economic Report on Africa 2012". United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). p. 44. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
European Commission. (2006). Bilateral Trade Relations: Nigeria. Retrieved May, 2014, from http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2006/september/tradoc_122463.pdf.
European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Bank, & United Nations. (2009). System of National Acounts 2008, New York: International Monetary Fund.
George Owusu-Antwi, James Antwi & Peter K. Poku, (2013). Foreign Direct Investment: A Journey To Economic Growth In Ghana – Empirical Evidence; International Business & Economics Research Journal – May 2013 Volume 12, Number 5.
Granger, C. W. J. (1969). "Investigating Causal Relations by Econometric Models and Cross-spectral Methods". Econometrica 37 (3): 424–438. doi:10.2307/1912791. JSTOR
1912791.
Granger, C. W. J. (1981). Some Properties of Time Series Data and their use in Econometric Model Specification. Journal of Econometrics, 16, 121-130.
Gross Domestic Product 2014, Ghana Statistical Service; Statistics for Development and Progress, April 2014.
Haddad, M, and B Shepherd (eds.) (2011), “Managing Openness: From Crisis to Export- Led Growth v2.0”, in M Haddad, and B Shepherd (eds.), Managing Openness: Trade and Outward-Oriented Growth after the Crisis, World Bank.
Johansson, H., & Nilsson, L. (1997). Export Processing Zones as catalysts. World Development, 25(12), 2115-2128.
Joyce Meng, (2004). Ghana’s Development: Miracle or Mirage? December 6, 2004 History 107.
Krueger, A. O. (1988). Why Trade Liberalisation is Good for Growth. The Economic Journal, 108(450), 1513-1522.
M. Shahbaz (2012) Does Trade Openness Affect Long Run Growth? Cointegration, Causality and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition Tests for Pakistan Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/37391/ MPRA Paper No. 37391, posted 16. March 2012 10:47 UTC.
Mbaku, J. M. (1989). Export Growth and Economic Growth Performance in Developing Countries: Further Evidence from Africa. Journal of Economic Development, 14(2), 127-142.
Mduduzi, B. & Talent, Z. An export-led growth (ELG) paradigm in Africa: Panel data Approach.
Nana Kwame Akosah, (2014). Macroeconomic Implications of High Import Demand In Ghana; US Open Economics Journal Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2014, pp. 1-31 http://arepub.com/Journals.php.
Olaniyi Evans, (2013). Testing Finance-Led, Export-Led and Import-Led Growth Hypotheses on Four Sub-Saharan African Economies, MPRA Paper No. 52460, posted 25. December 2013 15:24 UTC.
Onodugo, Vincent A., Kalu, Ijeoma E.,& Kalu, Ijeoma E.,(2013). Financial Intermediation and Private Sector Investment in Nigeria; Research Journal of Finance and Accounting www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online) Vol.4, No.12, 2013.
Onyeagu Augustina Nkechi (2013). An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Ghana: The Role of Human Capital Development; International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention ISSN (Online): 2319 – 7722, ISSN (Print): 2319 – 7714 www.ijhssi.org Volume 2 Issue 8ǁ August 2013ǁ PP.12-20.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2009a). African Economic Outlook: Nigeria: OECD.
Phillips, P. C. B., & Perron, P. (1988). Testing for a Unit Root in Time Series Regression. Biometrika, 75(2), 335-346.
Rodrik, D. (1999). The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. London: Overseas Development Council.
Romer, P. M. (1992). Two Strategies for Economic Development: Using Ideas and Producing Ideas. Paper presented at the the Annual World Bank Conference on Development 1992, Washington, D.C.
Sala-i-Martin, X., & Pinkovskiy, M. (2010). African Poverty is Falling…Much Faster Than You Think! (NBER Working Paper 15775). Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Santos R. Alimi & Bernard O. Muse (2013). Export – Led Growth or Growth – Driven Exports? Evidence from Nigeria. British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade 3(2): 89-100, 2013
Schultz, T. W. (1961). Investment in Human Capital. The American Economic Review, 51(1), 1-17.
Sims, C. A. (1972). Money, Income, and Causality. The American Economic Review, 62(4), 540-552.
Sims, C. A. (1980). Macroeconomics and Reality. Econometrica, 48(1), 1-48.
Stiglitz, J. E., Sen, A., & Fitoussi, J.-P. (2010). Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up. New York: The New Press.
Toda, H. Y., & Phillips, P. C. B. (1994). Vector Autoregression and Causality: A Theoretical Overview and Simulation Study. Econometric Reviews, 13(2), 259-285.
Toda, H. Y., & Yamamoto, T. (1995). Statistical Inference in Vector Autoregressions with Possibly Integrated Processes. Journal of Econometrics, 66, 225-250.
Tom Easterling, James W. Fox & Fenton B. Sands, (2008). Factors Affecting Economic Growth in Ghana: Bases for a New USAID Approach to Economic Growth. EEM-I-02-07-00003-02.
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; Investment Policy Review Ghana, June 2003, UNCTAD/ITE/IPC/Misc.14.
Vijay K. Bhasin (2011). Trade Liberalization Financing and its Impact on Poverty and Income Distribution in Ghana; African Economic Research Consortium, ISBN: 978-9966-023-06-3.
World Bank (2007) Financial Sector Integration in Two Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, DC: World Bank.
World Bank. (2013). World Development Indicators (WDI) Database. Retrieved November, 2015, from http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
World Economic Forum. (2013). The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011. Geneva: World Economic Forum.
Xinshen Diao, (2010). Economic Importance of Agriculture for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction: Findings from a Case Study of Ghana. Global Forum on Agriculture 29-30 November 2010 Policies for Agricultural Development, Poverty Reduction and Food Security OECD Headquarters, Paris.