The Global Financial Crisis has typically led to a significant widening of fiscal positions (i.e.,
higher budget deficits and public debt). We address the sustainability of public finances in
Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP), through adequate econometric testing. Our
findings for the period 1975-2015 suggest that most of the PALOP have compromised the
sustainability of their corresponding fiscal positions, leading these economies to be set on
unsustainable public finance trajectories.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio