Kennedy Osoro

Determining the Twin Deficits Phenomenon in Kenya

Patrick Mugendi Mugo, Wafula Masai & Kennedy Osoro · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2021

Aims: This study examines whether the long-run relationship between fiscal and current deficits follows the tenets of twin-deficits, the Ricardian equivalence, the current account targeting, or the feedback linkages. It further reviews the effects of fiscal and current account de...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jemt/2021/v27i830360

The Effects of Primary Budget Deficits on Economic Growth: Evidence from Kenya

Patrick Mugendi Mugo, Wafula Masai & Kennedy Osoro · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2021

Aims: The paper attempts to examine the effects of primary budget deficits on economic growth. It reviews the nature and direction of causality between primary budget deficit and economic growth. In the recent years, these have been debated both in developed and developing countr...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jemt/2021/v27i530344