Revenue and Expenditure Nexus: A Case Study of ECOWAS

Abstract: This paper aims to assess the relationship among fiscal variables (government revenue and expenditure) in Sub-Saharan African countries. Using yearly data for the period between 1980 and 2011 in fifteen ECOWAS countries, a weak long-run relationship between government expenditure and revenue emerge, but only in the case of WAMZ countries. Granger causality analysis show mixed results for WAEMU countries, while for four out of six WAMZ countries (Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone) the “tax-and-spend” hypothesis holds, since government revenue would drive the expenditure.

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Revenue and Expenditure Nexus: A Case Study of ECOWAS ; volume:7 ; number:1 ; year:2013 ; extent:29 ; Economics / Journal articles. Journal articles ; 7, Heft 1 (2013) (gesamt 29)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Magazzino, Cosimo

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2013-13
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412130926097.534027722188
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.