Economic openness, institutional quality and per capita income: Evidence from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

• Authors: Innocent Chile Nzeh , Hycenth Oguejiofoalu Richard Ogwuru , David Ogomegbunam Okolie , Jonathan Ibekwe Okolie

Abstracts

EN

The controversy surrounding the actual impact of institutional quality and economic openness on economic growth is among the motivating factors for this study. The study seeks to investi- gate this relationship in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by using the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) test with annual series covering the period from 2000 to 2020. Findings indicate that in the short-run, regulatory quality and FDI outflows had an adverse impact on the economic performance of the ECOWAS bloc. Furthermore, the long-run results show that trade openness, political stability and FDI outflows had an adverse impact on the economy of the bloc, while regulatory quality positively affected the economy. Consequently, the paper recommends that member countries in the ECOWAS bloc should put in place effective regulatory framework in the short and medium term to attract FDI inflows, while building a strong and stable political environment in the long term.

Keywords

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FDI inflows; openness of the economy; regulatory quality; institutional quality

• Publisher: Wydział Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Research Papers in Economics and Finance
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 50-67

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Innocent Chile Nzeh

• Renaissance University

• https://orcid.org/0000000231319036

author

Hycenth Oguejiofoalu Richard Ogwuru

• Novena University

• https://orcid.org/0000000344947135

author

David Ogomegbunam Okolie

• Renaissance University

• https://orcid.org/0000000231319036

author

Jonathan Ibekwe Okolie

• Enugu State University of Science and Technology

• https://orcid.org/0000000177983090

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18559/ref.2022.2.3

Biblioteka Nauki

2207119