We investigate the effects of public debt on economic growth and examine its viability as a policy tool to spur economic growth using a sample of 14 Middle Eastern and North African countries over the period 1980–2015. We reveal the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between public...

Most existing studies examine the influence of labor remittance outflows on economic growth in receiving countries, with very few exceptions concerning sending countries. This study employs the nonlinear augmented mean group method to investigate whether remittance outflows have an adverse...