Does Agricultural Trade promote Chinese economic growth? ARDL Approach

Sayef Bakari and Sofien Tiba

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Since the beginning of the third millennium, the Chinese agricultural exports increase at a strong pace. In this context, this paper aims to answer the question if the agriculture trade promotes Chinese economic growth by employing the ARDL bounds testing for the study period from 1984 to 2017. In the long-run, our highlights reported that domestic investment and agricultural exports have a positive effect on economic growth. However, agricultural imports have a significant negative impact on growth. In the short-run, our insights reported a positive and significant effect of domestic investment, agricultural imports and agricultural exports on economic growth. The positive impact of agriculture exports on growth is due to the importance of agriculture in terms of creating jobs and opportunities for the economy as a whole. Also, sufficient national investment in the agriculture sector leads to enlarging these opportunities and then improves the Chinese economic growth.

Keywords: Agricultural trade; economic growth; ARDL bounds testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F14 O47 O53 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-int and nep-tra
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