Abstract:
For economic growth and development in any WE African country the GDP progress is depending on the
key push-pull factors as migration, personal remittances received, bilateral aids and, absolutely, employment in
agriculture which is about 1/3 of the population and not a predominant and protected minority as happens in the
industrialized EU and North America. In order to represent the framework of the reciprocal dependencies the
present study used the statistics of Gambia from WDI covering the periods from 1960 to 2017 by applying linear
regression models. The results confirmed that migration and remittances have significant positive impact on
employment in agriculture because new investment in agriculture created new skilled and unskilled
employment. The results also found out that employment in agriculture has negative and significant impacts on
foreign aids: 10% increase in migration, increases foreign aid by 50.3%. Increasing 10% of remittance, increase
economic growth by 0.14% but 10% increases in employment in agriculture, decrease economic growth by
0.04%. To face globalization the economy of the Gambia should use the foreign aid to improve agriculture
production and productivity thereby increase economic growth through human capital theory of migration, skilled
migration, export and food security, the study recommends.
