Research Article

Assessing Swaziland’s Fiscal Sustainability and Policy Options

Table 3

Unit root test results, Phillips-Perron test statistic.

VariableAdjusted -statisticProbability

Debt to GDP ratio−3.91770.0054
Primary surplus to GDP ratio−2.99800.0465
Interest rate−2.89340.0615
GDP growth−2.81890.0712
Output gap−5.59090.0001

MacKinnon (1996) [19] test critical values:
 1% level−3.752942
 5% level−2.998064
 10% level−2.638752