External debt and economic growth in Tunisia
In: Panoeconomicus: naučno-stručni časopis Saveza Ekonomista Vojvodine ; scientific-professional journal of Economists' Association of Vojvodina, Band 61, Heft 6, S. 669-689
ISSN: 2217-2386
This paper investigates the external debt effect on economic growth in
Tunisia. Our empirical methodology is based on the autoregressive
distributed lag approach. We find that in the long- as well as in the
short-run, external debt had a negative effect on growth over the 1970-2010
period. The longrun effect was slightly higher in the period before the Ben
Ali?s presidency than in the period after. However, during his period, the
external debt short-run effect was the double of that observed during the
period before. These results suggest that an external debt reduction should
favor economic growth in Tunisia.