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Review of 'THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICAN COUNTRIES'
Average rating: | Rated 3.5 of 5. |
Level of importance: | Rated 3 of 5. |
Level of validity: | Rated 4 of 5. |
Level of completeness: | Rated 4 of 5. |
Level of comprehensibility: | Rated 3 of 5. |
Competing interests: | It would be desirable but not obligatory if the Author/s should clearly state the benefits of the research. |
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THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Review information
| ScienceOpen disciplines: | Economics |
| Keywords: | PVAR, monetary policy, fiscal policy, SSA, economic growth, monetary policy, fiscal policy, PVAR, economic growth, SSA. |
Review text
This paper provides a comprehensive study about the monetary and fiscal policy interaction and their impact on economic growth in a panel of 35 sub-Saharan African economies from 1980 to 2018. The author shows, using a Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) approach, that an expansionary fiscal policy through tax revenue and an unexpected expansionary monetary policy via broad money supply has a positive effect on gross national income, whereas an expansionary fiscal policy through the government spending has a contractionary impact on gross national income. It is an interesting and worthwhile topic. However, there are some issues that should be revised by the authors.
Major comments:
There is no page numbering for the present paper.
There are a lot of grammatical errors which should be revised by the author. So, the paper needs a professional proofreading.
The paper is too long. It should be presented shorter.
Abstract:
The abstract doesn’t include the importance of the problem.
Introduction & Literature review:
The author should be explained more the main contributions and research gap of the paper, in particular, in the introduction section, more than the present explanations.
The non-relevant references should be removed from the paper. The number of references is so much.
Main body:
All the tables and figures must have a title and citation in the text, according to the author’s guide of the journal.
Conclusions:
The limitations of the problem solving should be mentioned by the authors.
The conclusion should be free from the notations.
Minor comments:
A notations list should be added to the paper.
The caption of figures should be embedded below them.
There are many equations that have no citations in the main text.
It would be desirable but not obligatory if the Author should clearly state the benefits of the research.
The used references are a bit older but there are really no younger and better references.