Fiscal sustainability: an empirical investigation in Sarawak

• Main Authors: Lau, Evan Poh Hock, Tiong, Magdalene Hua Ling, Ling, Jeffrey
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39446/1/39446.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39446/; http://econ.upm.edu.my/ijem/vol3_no1.htm

This paper examines the fiscal sustainability condition for Sarawak during 1971 to 2004. We also split the sample period into the pre-crisis (1971-1996) to investigate the disparities between the two empirical samples. Empirical validation from the time series analysis finds that government revenue,...