Research on World Agricultural Economy

Determinants of the Share of the Economy Contributed by the Forestry Industry in Ghana from 1975 to 2023

Kwabena Asomanin Anaman

University of Ghana, Accra

Samuel Ampomah

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B5, Canada

Joseph Manzvera

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG68, Legon, Accra, Ghana

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36956/rwae.v5i4.1205

Received: 28 July 2024; Published: 20 September 2024

Abstract

The macroeconomic determinants of the share of the economy contributed by the forestry industry in Ghana were examined over the period from 1975 to 2023, based on the development of time-series cointegration and error correction models. The analysis indicated  that the share of the forestry industry was positively influenced by the real value of the cocoa industry, the exchange rate, and the real interest rate. The relationship between the forestry industry's share and per capita real gross domestic product (GDP) was found to be curvilinear: at low levels of per capita income, the share of the forestry industry in the economy increased with increasing income; beyond a certain level of per capita income, the share of the forestry industry declined. Additionally, economic shocks, namely the El Nino weather phenomenon, and political instability, related to the occurrence of military coups, were identified as negative influences on the share of the economy attributed to the forestry industry.

Keywords: Determinants of forestry output, Forestry economics; Ghana; Macroeconomic analysis of industry; Marginalization; Resource economics

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