Kuwaiti Consumption in the Presence of Dramatic Economic Events: 1973-2003

Packey, Daniel J.; Nasair, S.

doi:10.2202/1475-3693.1103

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“…Packey and Nasair (2009) explored the Kuwaiti consumption function in the presence of economic structural breaks where they used the ZA unit root test to test for nonstationarity in the real GDP and consumption. Regarding the results, both real GDP and its natural logarithm have failed to reject the test's null hypothesis of a unit root with a structural break in the constant, the trend and both.…”

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Public Spending and Economic Growth in the Rentier State: The Case of Kuwait

Merza¹,

Alhasan²

2016

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This paper examines the validity of Wagner's hypothesis in Kuwait looking specifically at government expenditures in health, education and infrastructure. Using time series analysis, the paper has found a long-run equilibrium relationship between GDP growth and the specified government expenditures. It, however, only found one causal relationship between development expenditures and GDP growth. As such, the paper proposes an expansion in government spending on development projects and reevaluates budget allocation in health and education.

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