The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of public expenditures on economic growth using time series data on Tanzania (for 32 years). We formulate a simple growth accounting model, adapting Ram (1986) in which total government expenditure is disaggregated into expenditure on...

This study examines the growth and wealth creation impact of government spending in Tanzania during the 1960-2015 period using Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) modeling for co-integration in a full and sample-splitting framework. The study is motivated by multiple and diverse views in the...

The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation pursues the objective by explicitly highlighting the...

The study analyses the effect of fiscal expansion and adjustment on economic growth in Tanzania over the period 1967 to 2016. Use of descriptive analysis was complemented by econometric analysis based on estimation of an error correction model (ECM) conditioned on cointegration test by bounds...