Aim/purpose - This study examined the impact of public sector spending and governance on economic growth in Sub …-Saharan Africa (SSA) and further assessed the role of governance in the causal relationship between public sector spending and … relationships among the variables. Findings - The findings show that spending in the public sectors alone, such as education and …

spending, on the other one, using a VECM methodology. We find some evidence of prociclicality of fiscal policy using variables … such as government spending, taxes, and primary surplus. Effects in the opposite direction are much smaller. Results are …