The Causal Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Performance in Tanzania

Jehovaness Aikaeli and Costantine Richard Mbellenge

African Journal of Economic Review, 2016, vol. 04, issue 01

Abstract: The study employs cointegration, vector error correction model and Granger causality test to ascertain causation between financial development and economic performance in Tanzania. Economic performance is measured by the real GDP, whereas proxies for financial development are: the ratio of money supply to nominal GDP; and growth of credit to private sector. The results show that there is a stable long-run relationship between financial development and economic performance in Tanzania. Granger causality test indicates that the causality runs from financial development to economic performance.

Keywords: Financial; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.264427

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