Private investment and economic growth in ِِAlgeria : the ARDL bounds testing approach (1970-2017)‎

Abstract EN

This paper presents a study on the impact of public and private investment on economic growth in Algeria in light of reforms and economic trends towards a market economy.

Using annual data from 1970 to 2017, the study applies the recently developed Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)- bounds testing approach.

The study concluded that we have important results so that private investment has a positive impact on economic growth in the short and long terms in line with efforts made to develop the private sector, while public sector investment has a insignificant impact on economic growth, the results also showed that the employment component Export and import also have a positive effect in the long and short run.