The purpose of the study is to test for debt sustainability as well as assess the impact of public debt on economic growth in Ghana using annual time series data spanning from 1970 to 2014. The study employed the fiscal reaction function suggested by Bohn (1998) to test for the sustainability of...

This paper examines the impact of public debt on fiscal balance. This study uses the standard debt equation in a fiscal reaction and impulse response functions framework to assess the trajectory of public debt and its sustainability within the Sub-Sahara region from 1980-2017. From the...