Economic Growth and Government Spending in Saudi Arabia : an Empirical Investigation /

This paper empirically examines the effects of different types of government expenditures, on economic growth in Saudi Arabia. We use different econometric techniques to estimate the short- and long-run effects of these expenditures on growth and employ annual data over the period 1969-2010. Our fin...

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Autor Principal: Alshahrani, Saad
Outros autores: Alsadiq, Ali
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/003
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF
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