The Size of Government

Antonio Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht and Vito Tanzi

No 2020/0129, Working Papers REM from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: We discuss and provide an overview of the size and role of the government, notably in terms of what the government “should” do, how the government could spend and intervene in the economy, how much governments spend and what they spend their money on.This is done from a historical perspective and also in a stylized way via assessing total expenditure, the composition of public expenditure for advanced, emerging and developing countries.

Keywords: public spending; size of government; expenditure composition; public sector efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B00 E62 H11 H50 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05
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