Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An empirical analysis of sustainability of public debt among BRICS nations Description An account of the resource The main objective of this paper is to verify the sustainability of public debt among Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in a political economy framework. Annual panel data have been used for BRICS countries from World Development Indicators of World Bank for the period 19802017 for the analysis. Bohn's sustainability framework is used to examine the sustainability of public debt in BRICS nations and verify the influence of political economic variables such as election year, coalition dummy, ideology of the government and unemployment on public debt sustainability. The results suggest that public debt sustainability is weak for BRICS as a whole. China and India have a better public debt sustainability coefficients compared to the same for Brazil, Russia and South Africa. Structural change dummy included in the model suggests that debt sustainability is severely affected after the 2008 crisis period. Political factors have influence on debt sustainability in BRICS. Electoral cycle year and coalition dummy variables adversely affect public debt sustainability in BRICS. While centrist political ideology is found to be significant and negative, left and right ideologies are not significant for debt sustainability. Since debt sustainability is found to be weak in BRICS, countries in the region need to adopt necessary measures to improve their primary balance through appropriate fiscal and debt management. Besides, it is important for the governments to prioritize fiscal prudence irrespective of their ideologies and political compulsions. 2020 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joy J.; Panda P.K. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Journal of Public Affairs, Vol-21, No. 2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available John Wiley and Sons Ltd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2170" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2170</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085571782&amp;doi=10.1002%2Fpa.2170&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=64677c98c49e9f28c453994acc5d41f5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085571782&amp;doi=10.1002%2fpa.2170&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=64677c98c49e9f28c453994acc5d41f5</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 14723891 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Joy J., Department of Economics, CHRIST(Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Panda P.K., Department of Economics, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India