Sustainability of Public Debt and Economic Growth in Cote d’Ivoire: is There a Threshold Effect?

Investigating the Effect of Public Debt on Economic Growth in Selected Islamic countries

The purpose of debt from both domestic and foreign sources is to bridge the resource gap between savings and investment. But not paying attention to debt and its role in the process of economic growth and development, may lead to adverse effects of debt on economic growth and also affect development programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of public debt on e...

Sustainability of Public Debt

Public Debt, Corruption and Sustainable Economic Growth

There are many studies that look into the relationship between public debt and economic growth. It is hard to find, however, research addressing the role of corruption between these two variables. Noticing this vacancy in current literature, we strive to investigate the effect of corruption on the relationship between public debt and economic growth. For this purpose, the pooled ordinary least ...

The Relationship between the Public Debt and Economic Growth: An Analysis of PIIGS Countries

T he financial crisis that was started in the last months of 2008, spread out to all world countries in short-term and had broken out as public debt in the European Union and Euro area. Most affected countries from this financial crisis had been Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain were named as PIIGS countries of Europe. The effect of public debt on economic growth had been a...

Public debt and economic growth in emerging market economies

This paper studies the relationship between public debt and economic growth for selected emerging markets performing panel data estimations. Several regressor variables are included, but the main focus is on public debt. The results reveal a significant positive correlation between public debt and the subsequent growth rate of per capita GDP. Population and investment also yield a significant p...