Nijkamp, Peter; Jacques Poot, Victoria - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
The issue of whether the public sector enhances or retards long-run economic growth has been debated passionately in … meta-observations, is used to examine the robustness of the evidence regarding the impact of fiscal policy on growth. We …. On balance, the evidence for a positive impact of policy on growth is rather weak, but the commonly identified importance …