Average rating: | Rated 3 of 5. |
Level of importance: | Rated 3 of 5. |
Level of validity: | Rated 2 of 5. |
Level of completeness: | Rated 3 of 5. |
Level of comprehensibility: | Rated 4 of 5. |
Competing interests: | None |
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Title: THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Overview and general recommendation:
The authors addressed 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. Using a Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) approach, the author shows that an expansionary fiscal policy through tax revenue and an unexpected expansionary monetary policy via broad money supply have 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 interesting and worthwhile topic. However, there are some issues that should be revised by the authors.