Sustainability in government finance

This research analyzes the linkage between economic growth and government expenditure and as well as the economic growth and government debt in Malaysia by taking account government development expenditure, government operating expenditure, domestic debt and external debt. This research is conduct...

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Main Author: Chin, Aina Hui Li
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2013
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/9083/
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spelling unimas-90832015-10-06T03:39:41Z http://ir.unimas.my/9083/ Sustainability in government finance Chin, Aina Hui Li HB Economic Theory HG Finance This research analyzes the linkage between economic growth and government expenditure and as well as the economic growth and government debt in Malaysia by taking account government development expenditure, government operating expenditure, domestic debt and external debt. This research is conducted based on the 32 observations for government expenditure and economic growth in Malaysia, which are from the year of 1978 to 2010. As for government debt and economic growth, the research is conducted based on the 22 observations from 1988 to 201 ~ The methods of unit root test, Johansen's co-integration test, Vector Error Correction Modeling (VECM) as well as the Granger causality test are used in this research to analyze the relationship between economic growth and government expenditure and also economic growth and government debt in Malaysia. The test of Johansen's cointegration indicates the existence of a long run linkage between economic growth and government expenditure and as well as the economic growth and government debt. In addition, empirical results reveal that causality does exist from economic growth towards governm,ent expenditure and domestic debt. Policymakers can adopt government expenditure especially development expenditure as policy tool to enhance economic growth. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2013 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/9083/1/Sustainability%20In%20Government%20Finance%20%2824pgs%29.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/9083/2/Sustainability%20In%20Government%20Finance.pdf Chin, Aina Hui Li (2013) Sustainability in government finance. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS).
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topic HB Economic Theory
HG Finance
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
HG Finance
Chin, Aina Hui Li
Sustainability in government finance
description This research analyzes the linkage between economic growth and government expenditure and as well as the economic growth and government debt in Malaysia by taking account government development expenditure, government operating expenditure, domestic debt and external debt. This research is conducted based on the 32 observations for government expenditure and economic growth in Malaysia, which are from the year of 1978 to 2010. As for government debt and economic growth, the research is conducted based on the 22 observations from 1988 to 201 ~ The methods of unit root test, Johansen's co-integration test, Vector Error Correction Modeling (VECM) as well as the Granger causality test are used in this research to analyze the relationship between economic growth and government expenditure and also economic growth and government debt in Malaysia. The test of Johansen's cointegration indicates the existence of a long run linkage between economic growth and government expenditure and as well as the economic growth and government debt. In addition, empirical results reveal that causality does exist from economic growth towards governm,ent expenditure and domestic debt. Policymakers can adopt government expenditure especially development expenditure as policy tool to enhance economic growth.
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author Chin, Aina Hui Li
author_facet Chin, Aina Hui Li
author_sort Chin, Aina Hui Li
title Sustainability in government finance
title_short Sustainability in government finance
title_full Sustainability in government finance
title_fullStr Sustainability in government finance
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability in government finance
title_sort sustainability in government finance
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/9083/
http://ir.unimas.my/9083/1/Sustainability%20In%20Government%20Finance%20%2824pgs%29.pdf
http://ir.unimas.my/9083/2/Sustainability%20In%20Government%20Finance.pdf
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