4 research outputs found
Money Supply, Interest Rate, and Economic Growth in Cameroon: A Time Series Analysis
The shortfalls of trade by barter have projected beyond imagination the role of money in any modern economic system. However, different predictions of monetary theories have assigned different degrees of the impacts of money and interest rate on economic growth and development. Thus, this paper is designed to investigate into the effects of expansionary monetary policy through interest rate on economic growth and development in Cameroon over a period of 32 years. Based on threetheoretical frameworks, using ordinary least squares technique and co-integration Error Correction (EC) analysis, the finding from this study is that the effectiveness of monetary policy diminishes with expansionary monetary policy in Cameroon. This work therefore recommends guided expansionary monetary policy as an instrument for growth and development in Cameroon in particular and the CEMAC zone in general.Key words: Dynamic, Money Supply, Interest Rates, Economic growth, Co-integration and Inflation.L'analyse de l'offre monĂ©taire, du taux d'intĂ©rets et de la croissance Ă©conomique au Cameroun: Ă©tudes statistiques. Les inconvĂ©nients du commerce axĂ© sur le troc ont dĂ©montrĂ©, bien au delĂ de nos attentes, la place centrale qu'occupe l'argent dans le systĂšme Ă©conomique moderne. Selon diffĂ©rentes prĂ©visions mises en avant par des thĂ©ories monĂ©taires, l'impact de la monnaie et du taux d'intĂ©rĂȘt sur la croissance Ă©conomique et le dĂ©veloppement se fait ressentir Ă plusieurs niveaux. Ce travail vise Ă Ă©tudier les manifestations de la politique monĂ©taire et expansionniste grĂące au taux d'intĂ©rĂȘt et son impact sur la croissance et le dĂ©veloppement au Cameroun sur une pĂ©riode de 32 ans. Les conclusions de notre Ă©tude rĂ©vĂšlent que l'efficacitĂ© de la politique monĂ©taire constituerait un frein Ă la politique d'expansion monĂ©taire au Cameroun. Ces conclusions s'appuient sur trois thĂ©ories monĂ©taires recourant au principe des moindres carrĂ©s et Ă une co-intĂ©gration de l'analyse de correction des erreurs. Ce travail recommande la mise en oeuvre d'une politique d'expansion monĂ©taire encadrĂ©e comme instrument de croissance et de dĂ©veloppement dans la zone CEMAC en gĂ©nĂ©ral et au Cameroun en particulier.Mots clĂ©s: Dynamique, offres monĂ©taires, taux d'intĂ©rĂȘt, croissance Ă©conomique, dĂ©veloppement,co-intĂ©gration, inflatio
Determinants of Traffic Congestion in the Metropolis of Douala, Cameroon: An integrated approach.
Urban transportation has had a cardinal role in enhancing economic growth especially in the advanced countries of the World. This might not be true in developing countries where traffic congestion especially in urban metropolises is highly recorded. It is on the bases of the problem associated with poor growth in most developing countries that this work was conceived to investigate into the determinants of traffic congestion in the Douala metropolis, the economic capital of Cameroon. To achieve the goal of this study, a survey research designed was adopted on the bases of which primary and secondary data were collected and analyses. While the Primary data were observed at points of traffic congestion in Douala, the secondary data were obtained from the World Bank Database. The secondary data were analysed using the Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) technique. Based on the VAR technique, the study reveals that economic growth has a causal positive influenced on its self, real fuel consumption and further urban agglomeration. On the other hand, urban agglomeration used as a proxy for traffic congestion has a negative effect on urban growth and economic growth. Based on the above results, it is recommended that a remedial infrastructural development plan and a sustainable polycentric land use pattern with alternative efficient mode of public and private transportation be put in place for the future.Keywords: Urban Transportation, Urban Agglomeration, Road Traffic Congestion, Agglomeration Economies, Monocentricity and Polycentrism
An Econometric Investigation into the Wagner's Law in the Cameroon Economy: The Vector Auto-Regressive Approach
In this work, we aimed at investigating into the Wagner's Law in Cameroon using data from 1980 to 2012 based on the Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) Methodology under the Cointegration procedures. The findings from this study challenged most previous studies in that our models achieved stability and are also Cointegrated to justify that although short-term instability do exist in the data set, there still exist a long-run equilibrium among the variables. Further diagnostic tests confirm that the data are well behaved. Although our findings reveal that the short-run dynamic impact of government expenditure on economicgrowth rejects the Wagner's law, the long-run relationship found insignificant influence of government expenditure on economic growth. We observe that government expenditure can change the fortune of Cameroonians if directed to the real sectors of the economy so as to improve on the social welfare of Cameroonians. Furthermore, we recommend that, guided commercialization, liberalization and privatization should be given adequate attention.Keywords: Wagner's Law; Structural Vector Auto-regression; Cointegration and Dynamics.Cette Ă©tude vise Ă examiner la loi de Wagner au Cameroun en utilisant les donnĂ©es de la pĂ©riode allant de 1980 Ă 2012 basĂ©e sur le model d'auto-rĂ©gression de vecteur structurel de cointegration. Les rĂ©sultats de l'Ă©tude dĂ©fient ceux des Ă©tudes antĂ©rieures Ă©tant donnĂ© que les variables choisies du model sont restĂ©es stables et cointegreĂ©s montrant que malgrĂ© l'existence d'instabilitĂ© des donnĂ©es dans le court terme, il y a la prĂ©sence d'un Ă©quilibre Ă long terme parmi ces variables. D'autres tests de diagnostique confirment le bon comportement des donnĂ©es. Bien que la relation dynamique du court terme entre les dĂ©penses gouvernementales et la croissance Ă©conomique rĂ©fute la loi de Wagner, la relation du longterme entre les dĂ©penses gouvernementales et la croissance Ă©conomiques reste insignifiante. Ainsi donc, les dĂ©penses gouvernementales peuvent amĂ©liorer le bien-etre social des Camerounais si elles sont canalisĂ©es vers les secteurs rĂ©els de l'Ă©conomie du pays. De mĂȘme, il est nĂ©cessaire d'adopter une politique de commercialisation guidĂ©e, libĂ©ralisation etprivatisation au Cameroun.Mots clĂ©s : Loi de Wagner, auto-rĂ©gression de vecteur structurel, cointegration et dynamique