The Role of Port Infrastructural Quality on GDP Per Capital in West African Countries: A Static Model Approach

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the effect of quality Port Infrastructure on growth using panel data of 15 West African countries. This study employed the random effect model and vector autoregressive model for the period 2006 to 2019. The result of the study revealed that air transportation posits a negative and significant effect on GDP per capital. Infrastructural quality of port had a positive and significant effect on GDP per capital. However, working poverty had a negative and significant impact on GDP per capital in West African countries. On the causality relationship, air transport freight does not granger causes GDP per capital. Quality of port infrastructure and GDP per capital has a bi-directional relationship. There is also a bi-directional relationship between Inflation and GDP per capital. Similarly, a bi-directional relationship also exists between working poverty and GDP per capital.