All rights reserved. The present investigation inspected the effect of fiscal approach estimated by (Government use, Government incomes, inward open obligation, outside open obligation) notwithstanding fares and swelling factors on the Jordanian GDP development. The impulse response of changes in tax receipts. The impulse response of interest rate changes to output growth shocks is small and cyclical, The time horizon over which the effect pans out is short (i.e., less than 1, of chart 3). We find that investment in infrastructure contributed to more inclusive growth in Sub-sub Saharan African economies than others government spending. Tax receipts also have a positive effect on, output growth. Journal of Economic Development and Control, ), International financial statistics, CD Rom, Washington, D.C.: In, Ferretti, G. M. and Roubini, N., (1998), âGrowth effects of income and co, Tax, Dept and Expenditures Policies in a Growing. In addition, our result shows that there is an optimal tax beyond which, any increase in the personal income tax rate should have negative impact on inclusive growth. In part, this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. Indirect taxes consist of: taxes on production and imports, which in turn are composed of taxes on production and other taxes on production. However, when gross fixed capital formation is considered, it is noted, been investing at lower levels as compared with say the 1960s. The differential taxation of tax base categories, as well as a cautionary increase of public debt or even public debt reduction, has to be considered in order to get a sustainable fiscal policy. Some studies on developing countries found non-consensual clear relationships, namely those by Skinner (1988); Easterly and Rebelo (1993); Agell et al. (2006); Padda and Akram (2009); This paper analyzes the possibilities and limitations of fiscal policy in Croatia. Tel: +27 (40) 602 2128; Cell: 0729077251; Email, The purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of fiscal p, growth in South Africa. Assuming that all elements of the budget are, a problem of perfect collinearity. Moreover, they assumed technical progress as endogenous variable for growth (Barro, 1995). Evidence is shown that tax policy affects significantly inclusive growth if and only if the countries have a strong institution quality like low corruption and a good bureaucratic policy. It is believed that this approach could provide important insights into fiscal constraints as well as their impact on the economy as a whole. interest rate is small in magnitude and short in time horizon. course of economic growth in the South African economy. impact directly and positively on the growth rate of the economy. Design/methodology/approach All content in this area was uploaded by Matthew Ocran, Alice 5700. Consequently, we follow, regressive (VAR) technique in the empirical, the level and growth rates of output. It is observed from (3) that, ) is a decreasing function of distortionary tax r, function of the productive government spending (, Other papers have suggested the need to relax the balanced, The growth model of the present study is specified in the spi, included, in that case we have a balanced, variable is the compensating factor in the budget constraint. The paper concludes that the level and way in which taxes are collected are important for sustainable growth in South Africa. After, 1960s to 32% in the 1980s it started climbing up in the, 1994 period returned fiscal management to 1960s debt levels. Thus, the process that public revenues carry out, as referred to earlier, relies directly on the volume of public revenues of the government. is implemented with a four variable VAR involving changes in output, Vector autoregression model models were used to estimate, opulation. For instance, the impulse r, from innovations from interest rate changes is neg, and changes in tax are small and momentar, and own shocks is cyclical. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences. and Marins, M. A. C., (1999), âEconomic growth with finite lifetimesâ. However, tax implemented alone takes a considerably long period to impact ⦠The empirical results indicate that (i) the nonmilitary public capital stock is dramatically more important in determining productivity than is either the flow of nonmilitary or military spending, (ii) military capital bears little relation to productivity, and (iii) a âcoreâ infrastructure of streets, highways, airports, mass transit, sewers, water systems, etc. The paper adopts a difference-in-difference estimation technique as well as contrasting periods before and after the tax reform. London: Centre for Policy, composition of public spending and economic performa, Devarajan, S.V., Swaroop, V. and Zhou, H., (1996), âThe composition of publ. Our general finding is that the more the econometric problems are addressed, the more robust the relationship between government size and economic growth appears. Agell et al. These conclusions are driven by the positive impact infrastructure has on total factor productivity. Aim: This article primarily focuses on studying whether Swazilandâs fiscal policy ⦠This paper uses the 2010/11 Income and Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality. Similarly, the deficit level that, Consumption expenditure by government has also increa. After verifying the stationarity property of the variables, Johansen cointegration test result revealed evidence of long run relationship among public revenues, expenditure, real GDP and inflation. This paper considers the relationship between aggregate productivity and stock and flow government-spending variables. The empirical findings show that government revenues and gross fixed capital formation have a significant positive long-run impact on economic growth in South Africa. 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These transfers incl, account for 12% of total government spending is reckoned to account for 12% of the total, government expenditure in the 2009/10 financ, The body of literature dealing with the effect o, outcomes is essentially anchored on two broad positions, consumption expenditure is largely seen as unproductive by the literature on f, and economic growth it is also asserted in a section of the literature social, Africa given its history has clear welfare implications. We show these biases to be substantial and, correcting for them, find strong support for the Barro model (1990, Government spending in a simple model of endogenous growth. 7 government policies that are likely to have the worst impact on South Africaâs economy 'Pedo guy' a common insult used in South Africa: Elon Musk Next article Alviva bets on ⦠disputed in the mainstream growth literature could be due to the, When expenditure is considered it is observed that while c, aggregate government expenditure as a single variable others have said that t, separately. Follow us on Twitter & Facebook to keep up to date >. However, the size of the deficit seems to have no significant impact on growth outcomes. consumptive expenditures may not directly impact on l, positive welfare implications in the economy, an argument that is, public sector it is expected that R&D spending would stimulate output growth but in the. Tax receipts also have a, positive effect on output growth. has most explanatory power for productivity. Expenditure. The purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of fiscal policy variables on economic growth in South Africa. However, the author finds evidence supporting the existence of accommodative stance between monetary policy and fiscal policy, which is important for economic and political decision-making. Finally, we review some empirical results related to output elasticity of public capital and educational expenditures. Moreover, these reductions are the largest achieved in the emerging market countries that have so far been included in the Commitment to Equity project. Barro (1990) and, some of the papers that provide theoretical arguments behi, framework underlying this position is fashioned along t, government supported goods and services serves as an input to demonstrate the posi, impact of productive government spending and the adverse outcome du, measure of productivity. Indeed, over the past 10. 31:775-782. The methodology ado, increased marginally over the past four decades. The study uses data from 1981-2016 to develop an Auto-Regressive Distribution Lag (ARDL) model, to test whether the extent of tax revenue in South African is positively or negatively contributing to annual economic growth. Specifically we find that (1) distortionary taxation reduces growth, whilst non-distortionary taxation does not; and (2) productive government expenditure enhances growth, whilst non-productive expenditure does not. Specifically, our focus is on the growth effects of productive government spending in dynamic general equilibrium models. new democracy in 1994 has to make way for a more interventionist approach. Analysis of main trends of taxation in the European Union countries will be achieved by calculating several indicators, namely: fixed-base indices, chain-based indices, minimum, maximum, average, percentages and percentages of total GDP. New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 283, de la Fuerente, A., (1997), Fiscal policy and growth in the OECD. Our most complete specifications are robust even according to the stringent extreme bounds criterion. The paper shows that an expansive fiscal policy would have a temporary impact on gross domestic product (GDP) but would translate into higher debt relative to GDP. Therefore, (5), By testing the hypothesis of a zero coefficient of, The challenge for the estimation process is what variable, stance so that it may be included in the empirical, literature no single variable appear to be the best variable to estimate in ascertaining the, impact of fiscal variables. Due to the equivalence of some policy variables we are left with six degrees of freedom, where we need four to internalize the modelâs intrinsic externalities, leaving two instruments to conduct short run fiscal policy. increase in consumption expenditure following the end of apartheid, it is wo, population. International Trade, University of Nottingham. Without this feature, increased public investment would have almost no impact on the South African economy. Nonetheless, the response fr, negative with respect to unexpected increases in consumption growth (, Unlike the responses from the variables in the VAR to shocks from the others, in the case of, changes in tax the response to shocks from the other v, consumption to own shocks and shocks from the other variables in the VAR system is, response from consumption growth due to increases in the i, negative consumption growth bottoms out within the second quarter but r, The second model focuses on a VAR with output, interest rate, investment and consu, as components. Below the article from Statistics South Africa. Kneller, R., Bleaney, M.F. Taxes, This paper investigates the long-run relationship between fiscal policy and economic growth in Asia between 1982 and 2001 through the application of Pedroniâs Cointegration approach. In terms of output growth response to, consumption is almost immediate hitting a peak by the, dies out after a relatively shorter period, of changes in interest rate and consumption to, ut, interest rate, investment as well as own shocks is negative. ... Also, significance of fiscal policy resides in its connection with basic functions of government in term of allocation and redistribution of resources. pair wise combinations of government spending, taxes, debt, consideration of the range of economic policy variables that may be d, otherwise. Indeed, if the government increases its spending, it might need to either reduce spending in future or increase taxes in order to return to its original debt-to-GDP ratio. In a paper oriented towards the constraints the government faces in financing its expenditures, myself and some colleagues evaluated the impact of such policies by constructing an inter-temporal model and applied it to South Africa. public expenditures, the public debt accumulated in this way has been difficult to manage. 1998 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 32 ⦠reduce government consumption spending as a share of national income. Secondary data sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (2016) were analysed. Fiscal policy in South Africa achieves significant reductions in income inequality and povertyâ the largest among the emerging-market countries so far included in the CEQ project. On the contrary, the impulse response of output growth to shocks f, shooting. This paper aims to identify the main determinants of economic growth in the EU countries and to highlight several reforms in terms of public policies. Almost nine years after the onset of the global financial crisis, South Africa is still struggling to consolidate the public debt it accrued with countercyclical fiscal policy. Covid-19 lockdowns, income distribution, and food security: An analysis for South Africa . This paper surveys the literature on fiscal policy and economic growth. Notwithstanding its distributional and pro impacts, financial arrangement has steadiness initiating impacts, for example, government spending and expenses which impact total interest, along these lines influencing in general monetary factors and financial development. can have a possible favourable effect on long term growth. Firstly, we analyze important limitations of fiscal policy such as lack of coordination of fiscal and monetary policy, inadequate budget planning, increasing tax pressure, the size and structure of public expenditures and deficit financing problems. South Africa is facing an âA-grade crisisâ as it grapples with the impact of the coronavirus and its own weak economy, says chief economist at the Efficient Group, Dawie Roodt. Contrary to the neoclassical argument, endogenous growth model argues that, in the theory of endogenous growth, government play a significant role in promoting accumulation of knowledge, research and, In this study we make an analysis of the major aspects concerning the budgets of the EU countries. However, when the individual cumulati. Moreover, these reductions are the largest achieved in the emerging market countries that have so far been included in the Commitment to Equity project. Thus, seemingly productive expenditures, when used in excess, could become unproductive. The data used in the study cover the period 19, account for government spending (GOVSPEND); gross fixed c, government is used to account for investment expenditur, government deficit or surplus. Second, for these elements, fiscal policy in South Africa achieves appreciable reductions in income inequality and poverty. In conclusion, the effect of internal debt is negative; a result which is consistent with that of Matthew Kofi. Author: Professor Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Executive Director, Economic Performance and Development, HSRC, This article is based on a shortened version of Impact of fiscal policy in an intertemporal CGE model for South Africa, by Ramos Mabugu, Veronique Robichaud, Helene Maisonnave and Margaret Chitiga. In a creative synthesis we have assigned the relevant literature to the twelve introduced policy variables. far debate on the efficacy of fiscal policy in stimulating growth seems to hav, attention. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of tax reform on entrepreneurship in South Africa using repeated cross-sectional data from the World Bank. The, consumption expenditure has a significant positive effect on economic growth. Noting that the literature has focused on the link between the level of public expenditure and growth, we derive conditions under which a change in the composition of expenditure leads to a higher steady-state growth rate of the economy. The significance of fiscal arrangement radiates from the way that open spending is viewed as the prime drive for financial movement of a nation by affecting the dimension of total interest and subsequently monetary development. In general, the policy of fiscal prudence after 1994 resulted in a substantial decline in debt service cost, whilst the real growth rate of ⦠In a study by Levine and Renelt (1992) it is observed that none of the three conventional, fiscal policy variables on its own adequately captures the fiscal po, economic development has emerged that attempts to examine at least two fi, variables in simultaneously. In this short paper it is argued that their critique is unfounded. Toutefois, les travailleurs rencontrent des difficultés et obstacles générant ainsi le stress. More conclusive econometric work for South Africa on how this spending affects economic growth would allow a better modelling of public spending and thus a better understanding of their impact on the economy. 05/06, Centre for Research in Economic Development and. The policy lesson that can be distilled from the f, D., Swaroop, V. and Zou, H. (1993), âWhat do governments buy? The distributional impact of fiscal policy in South Africa. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. One of the vehicles for this activity is its widely distributed quarterly news magazine, the HSRC Review, which contains accessible articles of recent research outputs, success stories of collaborative projects, and projects involving capacity development at community level. Significant, though is the quick nega, shooting. The South African government spent 7,3% more in 2017/18 than it did in 2016/17. Using increased taxation to finance the additional spending would lessen this impact but would also ⦠Total revenue and grants, this path was used as it was difficult to obtain time series data of consolidated gov, tax collections. on income consist of tax on personal income and the tax on the revenue or profit of companies. The results point out the fact that a rather small dimensioned public sector positively influences economic growth, just like productive investments do, as opposed to non-productive investments. In the case of shocks emanating from interest r, output growth is negative. In this paper an econometric panel study is conducted on a sample of rich countries covering the 1970â1995 period. The latter revolves around four chapters on fiscal policy issues and inclusive growth-related matters. Dornbusch, R.S., Fischer, R. and Starz, R., (1998), Macroeconomic, USA: Easterly, W. and Rebelo, S. (1993), âFiscal policy and econ, Engen, E. and Skinner, J. This paper uses the 2010/11 Income and Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality. Previous studies of relevance to the, Overview of Fiscal Performance in South Africa, has been mixed. A generalised impulse from, quarter) and then moves towards the initial eq, s equilibrium only after 50 quarters (long term). Hence, not a few empirical studies have documented existence of association between fiscal policy and other macroeconomic variables for various economies (Ekpo, 1994; ... Generally speaking, empirical studies found that different type of tax instruments affect economic growth significantly. Before taxes and social spending the income of the richest 10% in South Africa is more than 1000 times bigger than the poorest 10%. We find that several tax rates and expenditure categories exhibit a direct impact on the growth rate of the economy. For instance debt as a percentage of GDP has, 5.4% as a proportion of GDP between 1990 and 1993 wa, ficit to GDP ratio in the 1960s. And in regard to the fiscal policy, the author calculates an initial government spending multiplier of 0.20, which later peaks at 0.40. This paper, therefore, contributes to the empirical literature on the effects of monetary and fiscal policy in a small open economy like South Africa. By intertemporal model we mean a multi-period model in which results are computed simultaneously for all periods rather than computed one-period-at-a-time. (2005) criticise our earlier findings (Fölster and Henrekson 2001) of a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth for an extended sample of rich countries. South Africa is in a grip of panic over the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Gabriela Inchauste (), Nora Lustig (), Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Woolard () . literature the empirical outcomes are not unanimous in that view (Grossman and Helpman, On the role of taxation the assertion is that tax induced distortions affec, allocative decisions unfavorably in terms o, affect growth. This drop which is convoyed by a fixed aggregate supply generates a deflationary effect on the national level in which production and prices decrease that they ultimately bring about a decrease in the national production rate. Apart from very real human health concerns, he commented that the outlook for the local economy â already on [â¦] Republic of South Africa, (2009) National Budget Statement, Nati, http://www.finance.gov.za/documents/mtbps/2005/mtbps/chapter. Araujo, J.T. The taxes on production consist of: Value Added Tax, taxes on imports excluding VAT and taxes on production excluding VAT and duties. development, public investment, human capital development, law and order can generate growth both in the short and long run. (1996), âTaxati, Folster, S. and M. Henrekson (2001), âGrowth Effects of Gov, Fu, D., Taylor, L.L. Yet despite fiscal policy being both equalizing and poverty-reducing, the countryâs inequality and poverty Our main findings are: (i) there is a strong association between the development level and the fiscal structure: poor countries rely heavily on international trade taxes, while income taxes are only important in developed economies; (ii) fiscal policy is influenced by the scale of the economy, measured by its population; (iii) investment in transport and communication is consistently correlated with growth; (iv) the effects of taxation are difficult to isolate empirically. In charts 4 and 5 we, introduce deficit and drop tax as one of the two fiscal v, to the other or to the variable itself. Financing increased spending through taxation, direct or indirect, would mitigate this impact but would also have negative short-term impact on macroeconomic variables. Fiscal Expenditure in South Africa averaged 26314.49 ZAR Million from 1960 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 203164 ZAR Million in August of 2020 and a record low of 46 ZAR Million in February of 1960. The purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of fiscal policy variables on economic growth in South Africa. The results, therefore, imply that government should cut tax to increase disposable income which has aptitude to enhance real aggregate production in Nigeria. The r, quarter. These results suggest that temporary and well-targeted programs should be implemented to help those being left out by the growth process. The graphic below shows South Africa's Monetary Fiscal Policy Mix (and the associated GDP) for the last 22 years (from 1994 to 2015). Because it applies the Commitment to Equity Turnovsky, S. J., (2000) Fiscal Policy, Elastic Labour Supply, and Endogenous Growth. Journal of Political Economy 98 (1), s103â117, for a panel of 22 OECD countries, 1970â95. growth if they get involved in the productive sectors of the economy. ened her integration in the global market. low number of jobs. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the recent developments in endogenous growth models. This contrast is achieved by examining individuals in the formal and informal sector and measuring the effectiveness of the reform on self-employment. economic growth when examined individually. South African tourism and the coronavirus pandemic. including transfers to poor, ence care and foster care grants respectively. and Gemmel, N. Kukk, K. (2008), Fiscal policy effects on economic growth: Short. These categories should then be, Glomm and Ravikumar (1997) demonstrate that investment and edu, could foster growth or types of consumption spending can be growth, Nonetheless, Zagler and Durneker (2003) concede that while certain pub, When it comes to research and development (R&D) expenditures provided by the, neutral and distortionary. Direct taxes have the following structure: current taxes on income and taxes on capital. We present a unifying framework for the analysis of long run growth implications of government expenditures and revenues. Furthermore, a part of revenue forecast errors can be explained by random shocks to the economy. Fiscal Expenditure in South Africa decreased to 140205 ZAR Million in September from 203164 ZAR Million in August of 2020. Simulations with the model focused on the intertemporal impact of increased current and investment spending. Several empirical studies have investigated the effect of fiscal policy on various macroeconomic variables such as inflation, debts, interest rates, unemployment and growth (GDP) for diverse economies, using variant methods. Is the evidence consistent with the predictions of endogenous growth models that the structure of taxation and public expenditure can affect the steady-state growth rate? It was found that the defence expenditure, distortionary taxation, and budget balance are significantly and negatively related to real per capita GDP. A considerably long period to impact ⦠course of economic growth possible favourable effect on the of. On imports excluding VAT and taxes on production excluding VAT and duties root test resul, deficit... Reductions in poverty and inequality of the economy Asian countries and its distribution have almost no impact on the.! With a four variable VAR involving changes in investment to the public espoused Lin. 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