Global Journal of Human Social Science, E: Economics, Volume 22 Issue 1

© 2022. Guelang Anicet Yannick & Abessolo Yves Andre. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: E Economics Volume 22 Issue 1 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Public Expenditure on Physical Activities and Sports on Economic Growth in Cameroon By Guelang Anicet Yannick & Abessolo Yves Andre Université de Maroua-Cameroun Abstract- The objective of this work is to evaluate the effect of public expenditure on physical activities and sports on economic growth in Cameroon for the period 1990 to 2019. To do this, we drew on theories on productive public expenditure (BARRO, 1990). In order to achieve this objective, we used the modified version of the model based on econometric analysis from the framework inspired by the work of Romer, Mankiw and Weil (1992) and which was taken up by Serge A. Ayekoe (2004) to model the relationship between public spending on sport and growth. We used the unit root test to check the stationarity of the variables, then for robustness, the Breusch-Godfrey test for autocorrelation of errors, the Breush-Pagan- Godfrey/BPG test for homoscedasticity, the Jarque Berra normality test and the Ramsey global goodness test for model specification. Then the Toda-Yamamoto causality test was carried out, after which the ARDL model was estimated to assess the long and short term relationships and finally the Pesaran et al (2001) cointegration test. The results of the estimates of the effect of public spending on PSA on economic growth in Cameroon show that public spending on PSA has a positive and indirect impact on economic growth in Cameroon. Keywords: public expenditure, physical and sport activities, economic growth . GJHSS-E Classification: FOR Code: 149999 PublicExpenditureonPhysicalActivitiesandSportsonEconomicGrowthinCameroon Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: