The Size of Government

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito

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Authors

Afonso, António

Schuknecht, Ludger

Tanzi, Vito

Abstract(s)

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

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20112

Citation

Afonso, António, Ludger Schuknecht e Vito Tanzi (2020). "The Size of Government". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – REM Working paper nº 0129 – 2020