Abstract:
: For economic growth in any country must
accompanied with skilled migration, persona
remittances received, bilateral aid and improve food
security through adaptation method of agriculture. In
this regards, this study used the important of
employment in agriculture, migration, economic
growth, bilateral/foreign aids and remittances. We
use data from WDI from 1960 to 2017 using linear
regression models. Depending on the which variable
we choose as dependent variable, the results
confirmed that migration and remittances have
significant positive impact on employment in
agriculture in the Gambia. The results found out that
employment in agriculture seriously has negative
and significant impacts on bilateral aids. This may be
due to the fact that the foreign aids received for
agriculture is diverted to other used that could have
less important to the economy growth. The results
further explained that migration and economic
growth are insignificant optimistic impacts on total
aids in the Gambia, while remittance and
employment in agriculture are statistically
significant positive impacts on the total aids in the
Gambia.10% increase in migration, increases foreign
aid by 50.3%. This results is confirmed by
Berthélemy, Beuran, and Maurel (2009) using World
Bank bilateral data on the Effect of total aid on
migration-push affect, 10% increase in aid in general
increases migration by 1.5%. When we used
breakpoint date of 1981 and 1994 the results are
structural stable due to the coups in the Gambia in
1981 and 1994. In addition, remittance, migration
and foreign aid have positive significant impacts on
economic growth. Increases 10% of remittance,
increase economic growth by 0.14%. Only
employment in agriculture has negative impacts on economic growth. 10% increases in employment in
agriculture, decrease economic growth by 0.04%.The
economy of the Gambia should use the foreign aid to
improve agriculture production and productivity
thereby increase economic growth through export
and eat what we grow.
