Government spending drives economic growth in Kenya, study finds.
The article examines how the size of the government in Kenya affects the country's economic growth from 1970 to 2017. They used a method called autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing to analyze the relationship. The study found that in Kenya, government spending has a one-way impact on economic growth, meaning that government expenditure influences the growth of the real sector. This suggests that in Kenya, increasing government size can lead to economic growth.