An Analysis of the Relationship between Economic Growth and Human Development of South Sulawesi for 2011-2016

The purposes of this research are to find out: 1) the description of economic growth and human development in South Sulawesi, 2) the relationship between economic growth and human development in South Sulawesi, and 3) the cointegration relationship between economic growth and human development in South Sulawesi. The object of this research is 24 regencies or cities in South Sulawesi. Data from this research is secondary data obtained from the Central Statistics Agency of South Sulawesi and then analyzed descriptively and associatively. The description of economic growth and human development is obtained by analyzing the standard deviation and the influencing dominant components. The result of analysis using Klassen Typology showed that there were 2 regions classified to type I, 8 regions classified to type II, 4 regions classified to type III and 10 regions classified to type IV. The result of the analysis through the scatter plot showed that the increase of economic growth rate was not followed by the increase of HDI value; furthermore, the relationship between both variables was weak. Moreover, the result of analysis through cointegration test showed that there was no cointegration relationship or long-term relationship between economic growth and human development of regencies or cities in South Sulawesi