Tourism and Economic Growth in Sri Lanka: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of tourism on economic growth in Sri Lanka through the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The analysis was carried out for the period from 1969 to 2009. By and large, our analysis reveals that tourism has a positive impact...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environment and urbanization Asia 2012-09, Vol.3 (2), p.397-405
Hauptverfasser: Srinivasan, P., Kumar, P.K. Santhosh, Ganesh, L.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of tourism on economic growth in Sri Lanka through the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The analysis was carried out for the period from 1969 to 2009. By and large, our analysis reveals that tourism has a positive impact on economic growth in Sri Lanka both in the short-run and long-run.
ISSN:0975-4253
0976-3546
DOI:10.1177/0975425312473234