The new oil sector and the Dutch disease: the case of Ghana

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43310/15:43907513 RIV/62156489:43810/15:43907513

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201563062035" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201563062035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The new oil sector and the Dutch disease: the case of Ghana

Original language description

This paper investigates the impact of the new oil sector on the economic performance of major traditional sectors of the Ghanaian economy. The discovery of resource booming sectors in most countries often comes with several opportunities as well as challenges. Ghana discovered oil in 2007 and started subsequent commercial production and export in 2010. The results from the study show that, there is no clear case of declining performance of sectors in terms of output, growth and export earnings as a result of the oil production. The study could also not establish a sustained appreciation in the real effective exchange rate since commercial oil production commenced which is an indicator of the presence of the Dutch Disease phenomenon. The real effectiveexchange rate was also found to be highly influenced by oil production, oil prices, total exports and remittances. The study applied an autoregressive distributed lag model due to differences in the level of integration of variables. The

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

BB - Applied statistics, operational research

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

2035-2041

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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