Explaining the Growth of Government Spending in Ghana

Explaining the Growth of Government Spending in South Africa

What determines government spending in South Africa? The paper estimates the determinants of real per capita government spending in the Republic of South Africa, using annual data for the period 1960 to 2007, a tumultuous period during which South Africa experienced a variety of internally imposed changes (e.g., the abolition of apartheid, changes in political institutions) and externally gener...

Government Spending and Growth

Composition of Government Spending, Optimal Fiscal Policy, and Endogenous Growth in the Economy of Iran

This paper investigates the optimal fiscal policy, pertaining to government spending, considering different productivity of public services in production function and its impact on the optimal tax rate, the optimal rate of government spending, and optimal economic growth rate. Using the VECM model for Iranian economy over 48 years, results show while the current expenditure has a positive and s...

The impact of Government spending on economic growth in D-8 countries

The present paper examines the effect of government consumption expenditures on economic growth in D-8 countries during the period of 1988 to 2010 using the panel data method. Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan and Malaysia are the countries that have been researched in this study. Fixed effect method is used for the model estimation that has been acquired from Lizard...

Growth and Local Government Spending in Georgia

This brief is a technical analysis that estimates the effect of local government spending on economic growth at the county level in Georgia. Recent studies in the growth and economic development literature have emphasized the impact of government spending on growth at the national and state levels, but few of these studies have attempted to identify growth–enhancing government expenditures at t...