...Syed Mohd Shahzeb; Mohammad Arif Riaz Purpose The main objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of net government expenditure of selected “22 Indian States” and public debt from the period 1991 to 2023. The study also examines the comparative effect of central transfers between...

...Ahmad A Al-Majali Purpose This paper aims to investigate the optimal size of government expenditure in Jordan using various econometric models, including the Scully Model, the Armey Curve (quadratic model) and the Discrete Threshold Regression Model. The study covers quarterly data from 1976...

...Ernest Sogah; John Kwaku Mensah Mawutor; Isaac Ofoeda; Freeman Christian Gborse Purpose The impact of government expenditure on economic performance has been a topic of discussion at both the sectoral and aggregate national levels. Despite its theoretical importance, evidence from literature...

... reduce government gross debt while government expenditure and investments increase public debt. Research limitations/implications Due to data unavailability, other factors which are likely to influence government debt accumulation were not included in the study as control variables...

...Hanan AbdelKhalik Abouelfarag; Rasha Qutb Purpose This research seeks to empirically examine the impact of government expenditure on the unemployment rate in Egypt during the period of 1980–2017. In addition, it examines whether the distinction between discretionary and nondiscretionary items...

...Olumide Olusegun Olaoye; Monica Orisadare; Ukafor Ukafor Okorie; Ezekiel Abanikanda Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of government expenditure on economic growth in 15 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries over the period of 2005–2017. More...

...Olumide Olusegun Olaoye; Monica Orisadare; Ukafor Ukafor Okorie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the direction of causality between government expenditure and economic growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mohammed A. Aljarrah, Ph.D. The aim of this study is to examine the long‐ and short‐run relationships between the composition of government expenditure and investment in Saudi Arabia for the period 1970‐2007. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds test yields evidence of cointegration between...