Afonso, AntónioSchuknecht, LudgerTanzi, Vito2020-05-282020-05-282020-05Afonso, António, Ludger Schuknecht e Vito Tanzi (2020). "The Size of Government". Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – REM Working paper nº 0129 – 20202184-108Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20112We 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.engpublic spendingsize of governmentexpenditure compositionpublic sector efficiencyworking paper