Determinants of Public Debt in Lower-Middle Income Countries

This paper aims is to empirically investigate the influence of macro–economic factors on the changes of the public debt in lower middle-income countries. By applying DGMM regression method on the dataset of 40 countries during the 1996-2015, the study provides empirical evidences on the role of macroeconomic factors on changes of public debt in lower middle-income countries, including trade openness, interest rates, budget surplus, inflation, economic growth, foreign direct investment, infrastructure, financial development.