Date of Award
6-2016
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Applied Economics: M.S.
Department
Economics
College
School of Public Affairs
First Advisor
Artatrana Ratha
Second Advisor
Eungmin Kang
Third Advisor
Morgan Nyendu
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
Globalization, Africa
Abstract
The influence of socio-economic and political factors of Globalization on Africa has been long debated and studied throughout the history. This paper concentrates on investigating the impact of Globalization on Per Capita income growth and on another side it examines the relationship between education attainment, war, employment and gross capital formation on per-capita income. Using a Panel dataset of 11 African countries from 1971 to 2010, we find evidence that that globalization has had a negative impact on economic growth in Africa. Several control variables were used in the regression viz education, employment, gross capital formation, and also a war dummy. While war and employment variable were insignificant, gross capital formation was highly significant implying capital formation would boost economic growth but globalization would not.
Recommended Citation
Pare, Teddy U., "The Impact Of Globalization in Africa" (2016). Culminating Projects in Economics. 4.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/econ_etds/4
