Consumption plays an important role in economic growth and sustainable development. The Chinese government emphasizes the theme of promoting high-quality This aim has led to implementation strategies expand domestic demand through a deep structural reform supply chain, enhance endogenous power reliability large cycle, improve quality level international accelerate construction modern system. Ba...

From the Islamic economic perspective, there are factors that can influence growth, namely distribution of ZIS funds. The funds be used to encourage growth in a positive direction. This study aimed examine how direction relationship between consumption, government expenditure, and has on Indonesia's growth. method is quantitative approach, using Granger causality data analysis techniques cointe...

abstract government size plays a vital role in the economic development process. therefore, in this study, the existence of a non-linear relationship between government size and economic growth was investigated using the two-sector production function developed by ram (1986). the data, covering 44 years (1961-2005), were collected from the iranian economic information center. two classification...

Background Access to appropriate and affordable healthcare is needed to achieve better health outcomes in Africa. However, access to healthcare remains low, especially among the poor. In Zambia, poor access exists despite the policy by the government to remove user fees in all primary healthcare facilities in the public sector. The paper has two main objectives: (i) to examine the factors assoc...

In this article we analyze the determinants of the functional distribution of government expenditure using for this purpose the models of the median voter's demand common in public choice literature. First of all, we review the economic literature on the factors affecting each component of government expenditure. Then, secondly, we develop a demand model of expenditure structure and we estimate...

This study reexamines the sustainability of budget stance of Sarawak state, 1970-2008. Using the intertemporal borrowing constraint as a framework, the study tests the long-run relationship between government revenue and expenditure. Empirical results demonstrate a long-run equilibrium relationship among the variables. The cointegration test result suggests that Sarawak state’s fiscal stance sa...

This paper revisits Ernst Engel’s (1857) original article in which he systematically investigated the relationship between consumption expenditure and income. While he is mainly remembered today for the discovery of Engel’s law, we highlight how Engel addressed in a particular way the issue of the relation between statistical empirical analysis and economic theorizing. Inspired by an inductive ...