Mauritanian Effect of Trade Openness on Economic Growth

Abstract: The main Objective of this paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on Mauritanian economic growth. Thus trade openness is considered as a central and explanatory element towards convergence between countries. It turns out that international trade is one of the essential levers of the Mauritanian economy; the objective of this study was to analyze the effect of trade openness on the economic growth of Mauritania over a period from 1986 to 2016. The empirical and theoretical literature exists on this problematic but gives contradictory results. To analyze the effect of trade liberalization on growth In Mauritania, we have used the least squares (OLS) method and Vector Autoregressive (VAR) we found our data on World Bank and the Mauritanian national statistical office.The result shows that there is a positive relationship between trade openness and Mauritanian economic growth. Keywords: Trade openness, economic growth, ordinary least square (OLS), Vector Autoregressive (VAR