Badr eldeen Abdalmalik Alhaj AbouzeedGhadda Mohamed Awad YousifSafiat Ali Saber Ali2018-12-032018-12-032018-10-151858-62281858-6228http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13822The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the long-run and short-run relationship between (government spending, exchange rate, growth domestic product, domestic investment and inflation) and exports in Sudan. Three control variables are included in the analysis, namely, (foreign direct investment, money supply and cost of finance). The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to co-integration, associated with error correction method (ECM). Annual time series data covering the period (1980-2014), which are collected from the Central Bank of Sudan and Central Bureau of Statistics. The results show that real GDP, and inflation have negative effect on exports in the long run, while domestic investment, exchange rate and government spending have a positive effect on exports in the long run. The coefficient of inflation, government spending and exchange rate exerts right sign and statistically is significant, -0.49, 0.90 and 0.18 respectively this mean that, inflation, government spending and exchange rate considerate are important determents of exports in the long run. With regard of control variables, the result indicates that foreign direct investment, cost of finance and money supply have positive effect on exports. In the short run real GDP, and inflation have negative effect on exports, while government spending, exchange rate and domestic investment have positive effect and statistically is insignificant on exports. With regard of control variables, the result indicates that foreign direct investment, cost of finance and money supply have positive effect on exports. Moreover, the econometric analysis suggests that the speed of adjustment in the estimated models is relatively high and had the expected significant and negative sign. The government should improve public infrastructure to reduce the cost of production, and so can increase profits and encourage investor to invest.Exports, domestic investment, inflation, autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)