Impact analysis of GDP related variables on economic growth of Sri Lanka

Samarasinghe, Tharanga (2022): Impact analysis of GDP related variables on economic growth of Sri Lanka.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the impacts of GDP related variables in economic growth of Sri Lanka. Although there are many important variables affects to the GDP growth, this study focuses only on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), external debt stock, domestic saving rate, net export and final consumption expenditure. Except domestic saving rate, all other variables are measured by using the constant US$ value in 2005. The domestic saving rate was measured as a % of GDP. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) is proposed as the estimation method and the data set which was taken from World Bank will be analyzed using the EViews 8. I.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Economic growth, Sri Lanka, GDP, Economic growth rate of Sri Lanka, Economic growth forecasting, Auto Regressive Distributed Lag, ARDL
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D00 - General; D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D04 - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity > O40 - General

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