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    LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS EXPORT AND ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ETHIOPIA: A TIME SERIES DATA ANALYSIS
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2021-08) GETNET TAYE
    This paper has conducted an empirical investigation of leather and leather products export and its contribution to economic growth in Ethiopia. The study employed a time series data, the period from 1984/85 to 2019/20. The data set was collected from National Bank of Ethiopia, International Monetary Fund, Ethiopian Gumruk Commission and World Bank. This study employed Vector Error Correction Model and Johanssen co-integration test for data analysis. The result indicates that, the variables used in the study were non-stationary at level but they were found to be stationary at their first difference. The study also found that leather and leather product export, gross capital formation, have a positive association on economic growth and statistically significant association with economic growth in the long run. In the long run, improving leather and leather products export and net financial flow and labor force contribute for economic growth in Ethiopia. Increasing the volume of leather and leather products export and the improvement of the quality of leather product are increase the demand of the people and improves economic growth. This finding is consistent with our objectives and research questions sequences. This thesis ends with some policy recommendations. To maximize the gain from the sector the country should be cautiously allied to bordering country, which plan and designed in a sustainable way of export of leather product and pointing to escalation Ethiopian leather and leather products export and should also increase its trading partner among African and world countries.
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    ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ETHIOPIA TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2020-08) DESALEGN DEBEBE SORATO
    We have limited studies on the relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth in the context of sub Saharan Africa where efficient energy supply is limited although energy is vital to meet sustainable development goals. Considering this, this study investigates the long run relationship between energy efficiency and the economic growth in Ethiopia for the period 1974/75 to 2017/18. Multivariate time series analysis was employed. The result indicated that the existence of unidirectional causality running from economic growth to energy efficiency. Similarly, for the sectoral share of GDP, the unidirectional causality runs from energy efficiency to industry share while as bidirectional causality runs from service shares to energy efficiency and vice versa. The speed of adjustment coefficient indicates that the previous period disequilibrium adjusts to equilibrium at the rate of 59.2% annually. Impulse response function specifies responsiveness of the energy efficiency in the model to the shocks in the error term indicated that economic growth has significant influence while variance decomposition measured the strength of causality relationship showed high causal effect to energy efficiency. The overall result showed that increased economic growth has a strong cause of energy efficiency in Ethiopia. The government needs to give more importance to sustain economic growth so that both the wellbeing and the energy efficiency of the nation are improved.
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    THE NEXUS BETWEEN COFFEE EXPORTAND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ETHIOPIA: EMPERICAL ANALYSIS
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) AHMYE DEREJE KIBRET
    The country has taken different measures to diversify and increase the contribution of coffee export to economic growth such as; export trade duty incentive scheme, export credit guarantees scheme and foreign exchange retention scheme to those wholly engaged in supplying their products to foreign markets. This paper investigated the relationship between coffee export and economic growth of Ethiopia, for the period 1974- 2017G.C.Despite the incentives taken by the country, the export sector has depended on a few agricultural products mainly coffee, oil seeds and pulses which are characterized by fluctuations in quantity, price and have low competitiveness on the world market. The objective of the study was to assess the trend and relationship of coffee exports on economic growth of Ethiopia over the last forty-three years by looking at the existence of long run relationship between coffee export and economic growth. The speed of adjustment in the long run and the existence of causality between the coffee export and economic growth. The analysis was done using co-integration model, Error correction model and Granger causality model. The findings of the study showed that Coffee export has a positive and significant relationship with economic growth. On the other hand, the causality relationship found that there is uni-directional relationship between coffee export and economic growth that means coffee does granger cause of RGDP. Finally, CUMSUM test confirms the long-run relationships between the variables and also shows the stability of the coefficients. Based on the findings, it is recommended that policies aimed at increasing the productivity and quality of this coffee production should be implemented. Also additional value should be added to them before exporting that means the roasted coffee and other things can be added. When this is done, it will lead to a higher rate of economic growth in Ethiopia.