Economic Annals 2014 Volume 59, Issue 203, Pages: 119-137
https://doi.org/10.2298/EKA1403119A
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Institutional quality and economic growth: Empirical evidence from the Sudanese economy
Alexiou Constantinos (Cranfield University, School of Management, Cranfield, Bedford, UK + Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Tsaliki Persefoni (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Osman Hashim Rasha (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece)
This study aims to explore the extent to which conventional methods used in
the majority of relevant growth studies can successfully interpret the
economic performance of a highly underdeveloped African country such as
Sudan. Applying an ARDL boundstesting approach to cointegration proposed by
Pesaran et al. (2001), we look into the short-run as well as long-run
relationships between institutional and various other key economic variables
and economic growth over the period 1972-2008. The empirical results obtained
suggest that, for the Sudanese economy, the quality of the institutional
environment is one of the most important factors in defining economic
prosperity.
Keywords: institutions quality, economic performance, Sudan, ARDL cointegration