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The role of foreign public debt on foreign exchange reserve in SSA countries: Does governance really matters?

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  • Solomon Kebede
  • Getachew Zerihun
  • Kuma Berhanu
  • Tora Abebe

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The debt and reserve are playing a pivotal role in the growth and development of national economies. To examine the role of foreign public debt (FPD) on foreign exchange reserve (FER) the study used a panel data by considering 20 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries by interacting FPD with governance index across 15 years. The dynamic and static Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) models were utilized after checking the possible assumptions. The GMM model found that FPD, governance index, labour and human capital predicted the FER positively and significantly. While foreign debt augmented with governance predicted the variation of FER negatively and significantly. Therefore, Sub-Saharan Africa’s low performance of foreign debt in enhancing foreign exchange reserve partly attributed to bad governance. Finally, the government of SSA countries should improve their quality of governance to properly utilize FPD to enhance the stock of FER, among others.

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  • Solomon Kebede & Getachew Zerihun & Kuma Berhanu & Tora Abebe, 2023. "The role of foreign public debt on foreign exchange reserve in SSA countries: Does governance really matters?," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 2223810-222, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:oaefxx:v:11:y:2023:i:2:p:2223810
    DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2023.2223810
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