The size of government

Antonio Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht and Vito Tanzi

Chapter 1 in Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, 2023, pp 6-31 from Edward Elgar Publishing

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: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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