An investigation of granger causality between government expenditures and revenues : the case study of Algeria (1990-2017)‎

الملخص EN

The purpose of this study is to test statistically in granger sense for the existence of causality between government expenditures and revenues, and their effect on economic growth rates in Algeria based on annual time series data during 1990-2017.the results show that there is a unidirectional causality between government expenditures and revenues, from g.revenues to g.expenditures, and the both has a significant effect on Algerian economic growth in the medium term .finally the study recommend the need to accelerate the implementation of structural economic reforms, especially now as the economic conditions in Algeria don't allow the productive apparatus to respond to the increase in the volume of public expenditures.