RESEARCH

UNDERGRADUATE THESIS 

Title: Financial development and Sectoral growth in Ghana 

Abstract

The paper investigates whether the amelioration of the financial sector has been good for thesector-specific growth in agriculture and industry in Ghana. Using annual time series data from 1991 to 2020 an employing the ARDL approach to cointegration, study found a positive long-run and short-run relationship between financial development and sectoral growth in Ghana. In particular, unit increase in financial development leads to about 3.59% and 6.4% increase in agricultural growth and industrial growth respectively in the long-run. In the short-run, a unit increase in financial development leads to approximately 0.2% and 1.4% increase in agricultural growth and industrial growth respectively. The study recommends that policymakers prioritize measures to promote financial development to foster growth and development in the agricultural and industrial sectors of Ghana 

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