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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"government debt"”.
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Does South Africa's government debt threaten the sustainability of fiscal policy?
The South African government debt has risen alarmingly over the last decade, with the debt-to-GDP ratio increasing from 33% in 1985 to 57% in 1995. These debt movements, combined with historically high conventional deficits equal to 9.0% and 9.8% of GDP in 1993 and 1994 respectively, have cast …
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The impact of government debt on foreign direct investment in Zambia
… the question, can a country that is highly indebted attract meaningful FDI inflows that would spur economic growth? The research looked at a period of ten (10) years from 2010 to 2020 and analysed publicly available data to form the basis for the findings and recommendations. The research …
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The impact of government debt on economic growth: An empirical investigation of Namibia
This paper examines the impact of government debt on economic growth in Namibia with annual data spanning from 1980 to 2016. The paper investigates whether public debt spurs on or promotes economic growth. We employ an Autoregressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model that serves as an analysis of the …
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An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship Between the Namibian Government Debt and Economic Growth
The association between government debt and economic growth is complex. Namibia is not excluded from this spectacle as concerns are mounting about the fast-increasing state debt and its implication on economic growth in the long run. By the end of 2016, government debt constituted 40.6 percent of …
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Valstybės skolos struktūros ir valstybės skolinimosi įtakos Lietuvos ekonomikai analizė /
Government debt and its management are important for all countries. State borrows in order to cover the budget deficit, implement reforms and to provide public services in education, health, social security and other fields. Master's thesis analyzed the concept of government debt, government debt …
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Role of institutions in fiscal performance
… hidden liabilities, credit spreads, and official government debt. We construct a country panel dataset and use quantile regression and error correction models for empirical analysis: quantile regression to verify how variables play different roles in explaining the level of hidden debt and credit …
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The municipal bond valuation puzzle : evidence from U.S. States
… mechanisms that generate Jiang et al. (2020)'s "government debt valuation puzzle" by adapting their approach to the setting of state-level municipal debt. The main motivation in doing so is that states do not issue their own currencies, and are therefore precluded from monetizing the value of …
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Urbanisation and Fiscal Risks in China
… cities need to grow their economies. The central government has played a major role in China’s urbanisation through setting the overall development direction, land granting, and policy formulation. However, the responsibilities of infrastructure financing have been gradually shifted to local …
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Three essays on the sustainable macroeconomic policies
… Finally, we analyze the determinants of the government arears and delayed payment including institutional and cultural variables. In Chapter 1, we investigate how the fiscal reaction function is shaped regarding linearity and non-linearity to see if the government exhibits the phenomenon of …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… among risk premia, the valuation of government debt, and macroeconomic dynamics. The first chapter documents and explores the implications of the risk price puzzle–the empirical disconnect between inflation and risk premium shocks. I show that existing New Keynesian models struggle to …
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Investigating the determinants of sovereign bond yield spread in Namibia
… was used to investigate the determinants of government bond spread over the last decade. The variables used were ten-year government bond yield, GDP growth rate, government debt, current account balance and inflation rate. Data on all variables was obtained from the Bank of Namibia, except …
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The analysis of revenue productivity of the tax system in South Africa applying the Buoyancy and Elasticity measures
… resulting in fiscal deficits and increased government debt. Evaluating tax productivity and system effectiveness gains importance in identifying revenue sources, areas for improvement, and ensuring fiscal stability. This paper focuses on buoyancy and elasticity measures to assess tax system …
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An analysis of monetary policy and its effect on inflation and economic growth in South Africa
… rate, broad money supply, the exchange rate, government debt and government revenue on CPI inflation, as well as on the efficiency of monetary policy in reaching its objectives. It thus determines the long- and short-run relationships between the aforementioned variables from 2001 to 2017. The …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
… presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what hierarchies they have, and how they influence each other. Recent studies have shown that …
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Institutions, Government, and Development
… presents three chapters on how institutions, government's policy priorities and policy responses affect economic development. Chapter II explores how various institutions are related to each other, what hierarchies they have, and how they influence each other. Recent studies have shown that …
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Household credit: Regulation, constraints and macroeconomic implications
… bankruptcy is shown to imply efficiency of government debt as a tool for redistributing resources between generations. In the second chapter, personal bankruptcy is found to cause long-run macroeconomic instability only if it is associated with asset bubbles. Chapter 3 studies interest rate …
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Three essays on savings and the term structure of lending
… A general equilibrium model is developed with government debt and private capital that is costly to trade. The transaction costs reduce the proportion of savings held as capital. Three main results are established. First, larger government deficits cause a greater proportion of savings to be …
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Essays on applied macroeconomics and monetary policy
… in the presence of long and short-maturity government debt. I utilize the advances made in money search model to analyze the policy regimes. I find that while there are some similarities between the regime, there are also significant differences. I also find that the results using …
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Innovating the funding models for transport megaprojects in Kenya
… infrastructure funding gap, and with ballooning government debt, the country cannot solely rely on the government to meet its infrastructure funding needs. This study looks at the two predominant infrastructure funding models in Kenya, government funded procurement and public-private …
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