Transport Infrastructure and Economic Growth: New Evidence from Tunisia an ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Radhia Amairia and Bouzid Amaira

Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 98-112

Abstract: The achievement of an effective infrastructure, reliable and fair, is essential for economic growth. Indeed, the transport infrastructure is essential to the prosperity of regions. To investigate the relationship between transport infrastructure and economic growth, we use the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), we find that transport infrastructure is cointegrated with economic performance, indicating the affirmed presence of long-run equilibrium relationships among them. We use annual data for the period from 1980 to 2013. The study found that the transport infrastructure and investment in transport infrastructure in Tunisia have a significant positive contribution to growth, which shows that each impact is strong and statistically significant. The Tunisian experience suggests that it is necessary to design an economic policy that will improve the transport infrastructure and to increase investment made to the sector for sustainable economic growth in Tunisia. It is necessary to improve the existing road and rail networks. JEL Classification: F63, L91, R41

Keywords: Transport infrastructure; transportation; economic growth; autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL); Tunisia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0974930617732246 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jouinf:v:9:y:2017:i:2:p:98-112

DOI: 10.1177/0974930617732246

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Infrastructure Development from India Development Foundation
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().