Analysing the impact of financial market development on economic growth (Ghana)
Enoch Okomfo Okonah
Global media foundation Ghana, Ghana
yodae1982@yahoo.com
Abstract
The development of capital markets has become very crucial for government officials as a new tool to boost economic growth. Indeed, the desire of every government or any focused entrepreneur is to embark on a massive capital intensive projects which however lack the needed financial muscles thereby shifting attention to the capital market to mobilize funds for such purposes. This paper seeks to explore the impact of capital market development on economic growth using a time series panel data spanning from the period of 1991 – 2014. In the study we used stock market (market capitalization) and venture capital funds to represent the capital market and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the economic growth. In terms of data analysis, only the stock market proxy by market capitalization is used to represent the capital market whiles narration was done on the venture capital.
Keywords: capital market; economic growth; Ghana stock exchange