The Growth of Government Expenditure : A Review of Quantitative Analysis.

This paper reviews the extensive empirical literature on the growth and determinants of government expenditure. Although the coverage does not aim to be exhaustive, the authors provide an overview of the quantitative approaches to analyzing the growth in government expenditure. The main debates in t...

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Korporativna značnica: International Monetary Fund
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1988.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1988/017
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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