Sub-Saharan African countries as a group showed a considerable reduction in public and external indebtedness in the early 2000s as a result of debt relief programs, higher economic growth and improved fiscal management ...

Purpose. This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of internal and public debt on income inequality in Kenya for the period 1970–2018. Design/methodology/approach: The relationship is examined by using the ...

The Brazilian domestic debt has posed two challenges to policy-makers: it has grown very fast and its maturity is extremely short. This has prompted fears that a default or a compulsory lengthening scheme would be imposed. ...

The relationship between sovereign risk and indebtedness level is an important guide for evaluating the probability of a debt default. The market discipline hypothesis establishes that the risk premium increases with ...

According to Bohn (1995, 2008), the conventional sustainability tests, based on analyzing cointegration between government revenues and expenditures, are inconclusive for determining the sustainability of fiscal policy. ...

This paper analyses public debt in the most indebted Caribbean countries – i.e. Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and St. Kitts and Nevis – from the standpoint of its sustainability. ...

The research had as objective to analyze how the Brazilian public debt has evolved and how it was structured in the post Real Plan. Theories about debt and the thinking of some of the main schools of economic thought on ...

The research aimed to analyze the evolution and structure of the Brazilian Public Debt in the post Real Plan. The methodology can be classified as descriptive, about the procedures, the research is bibliographic, the ...