The impact of macroeconomic variables towards export in developing countries / Nur Amira Johan

• Main Author: Johan, Nur Amira
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Economics; Macroeconomics; Foreign investments. Country risk
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39107/1/39107.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39107/

Export is one of the most vital economic indicators which can be considered as the major factor of our economic growth. This is because export is an economic activity whereby local firm sells local products to another country that imported the local product. Therefore, it gains profit through export activity due to the inflow of money from another country which has different currency. This study will only involving a few of developing countries in the world as researcher found that it is important for us to know what are the indicators or variables that can affect export especially in developing countries. This is due to those countries’ development which is still in progress to expand their economic growth. This study will only involve a few recent years, which is from 2000 until 2016, as researcher can retain the data through some sources regarding the world’s economic data. Besides, this study will also be carried by following a guideline through the objectives that are required to be achieved. At the end of this study, researcher found that only foreign direct investment has positive relationship towards export while exchange rate and inflation have negative relationship towards export. The results that came out are constant with the previous studies that conducted by various researchers.