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Relationship on Economic Growth with Exports, Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI), and Unemployment.
Mohammad Akmal bin Shabudin
Supervisor: Dr. Nor Ermawati binti Hussain
Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources)
School of Social and Economic Development
The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which the relationship between
dependent variables which is economic growth with dependent variables such as exports,
foreign direct investment and unemployment. By using 30 years on time series data from
1985 to 2016, the findings show that some of the variables used are significant and have
a long-term relationship. While in the short term there is no relationship. The study also
found that there was a causal link between the variable used.
Keywords: Exports, foreign direct investment, unemployment, economic growth (GDP),
root unit testing, cointegration, error correction vector model, granger causality test.
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