The COVID-19 pandemic emerged at a time when the South African economy was already battling to recover from the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 which led the country to experience a decade-old slowdown in labour productivity. Our study investigates the role which government...

The paper establishes empirically the temporal causality and long run relationship between government expenditures and government revenues for the case of Guinea-Bissau - a low income country under stress (LICUS) in Africa. A simple macroeconomic model is developed to lay out the hypothesis of a...