Public and Municipal Finance
Human development under fiscal, financial, and environmental constraints: Evidence from SAARC economies
Type of the article: Research ArticleAbstractThe present study investigates the macroeconomic determinants of human development in eight South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) economies during the period 1990–2023, with special emphasis on the roles of public debt, economic growth, financial development, and environmental degradation. A fixed-effects estimation with Driscoll–Kraay robust standard errors and Dumitrescu–Hurlin panel causality tests on an unbalanced panel dataset of 204 observations …