Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire

This study attempts to evaluate the relationship between tourism and trade and self-employment growth in Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire using a time series data spanning the period 1991-2019. In this study, applied GMM approach is employed. Results show that export and import trade, developme...

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Autor principal:	Jimoh Olakunle Saka
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Lenguaje:	AR EN
Publicado:	Ziane Achour University of Djelfa 2021
Materias:	tourism trade self-employment gmm Social Sciences H Commerce HF1-6182
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:571b083916bd48d4bbecf7f53c22feec2021-12-02T14:11:45ZTourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire2676-184X2710-885610.48100/merj.2021.155https://doaj.org/article/571b083916bd48d4bbecf7f53c22feec2021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://mer-j.com/merj/index.php/merj/article/view/155https://doaj.org/toc/2676-184Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2710-8856This study attempts to evaluate the relationship between tourism and trade and self-employment growth in Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire using a time series data spanning the period 1991-2019. In this study, applied GMM approach is employed. Results show that export and import trade, development assistance and personal remittance flows significantly spur self-employment during the study period while indicators of tourism activities represented by the number of tourist arrivals retard growth of self-employment but increases export trade in these countries. On this basis, the business atmosphere and infrastructural facilities should be improved to sufficiently boost the relationship between trade and tourism and hence spur self-employment growth in these countries.Jimoh Olakunle SakaZiane Achour University of Djelfaarticletourismtradeself-employmentgmmSocial SciencesHCommerceHF1-6182ARENمجلة بحوث الإدارة والاقتصاد, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 44-59 (2021)
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description	This study attempts to evaluate the relationship between tourism and trade and self-employment growth in Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire using a time series data spanning the period 1991-2019. In this study, applied GMM approach is employed. Results show that export and import trade, development assistance and personal remittance flows significantly spur self-employment during the study period while indicators of tourism activities represented by the number of tourist arrivals retard growth of self-employment but increases export trade in these countries. On this basis, the business atmosphere and infrastructural facilities should be improved to sufficiently boost the relationship between trade and tourism and hence spur self-employment growth in these countries.
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title	Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
title_short	Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
title_full	Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
title_fullStr	Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
title_full_unstemmed	Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire
title_sort	tourism, trade and self-employment growth in west africa: evidence from ghana, nigeria and cote d'ivoire
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Tourism, Trade and Self-employment growth in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire

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