Fiscal Sustainability in South Africa: Recent Evidence
Journal Title: Journal of Social Economics - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyse how the South African government historically reacted to its public debt position during the sample period 1990-2013. Following diagnostic evaluation of the stationarity and coi ntegration properties of the data series, a fiscal reaction function was estimated to examine whether the government’s fiscal policies were consistent with the intertermporal government budget constraint. A standard three-variable framework of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was applied using Eviews. The results provide evidence that the government indeed ran a sustainable fiscal policy during the sample period explored by adjusting the primary deficit or surplus in response to changes in its debt positions.
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Elvis Munyaradzi Ganyaupfu
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