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Sustaining the Momentum of Fiscal Reform in Hungary
Forthun, Colin; Hagemann, Robert P. - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
public expenditure growth and improve public administration efficiency to reduce the public “footprint” on the economy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642473
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Government size and unemployment:evidence from developing countries
Feldmann, Horst - In: Journal of Developing Areas 43 (2009) 1, pp. 315-330
Using data from 58 countries and the period 1980 to 2003, this paper analyzes how the size of government affects unemployment in developing countries. According to the regression results, a large government sector is likely to increase unemployment. A large share of government consumption in...
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DECENTRALIZATION, GROWTH AND OPTIMAL GOVERNMENT SIZE IN THE ITALIAN REGIONAL FRAMEWORK
Liddo, Giuseppe Di; Magazzino, Cosimo; Porcelli, Francesco - Centro di Ricerca sull'Economia delle Istituzioni … - 2015
that decentralization exerts a positive impact on public sector efficiency, contributing to stimulate the income growth. …
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Getting Back on Track: Restoring Fiscal Sustainability in Ireland
Haugh, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
public sector efficiency, which provides a growth-friendly avenue for reducing the deficit in a durable way.<p> This Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364451
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Government and Growth
Zarin-Nejadan, Milad - Institut de recherches économiques (IRENE), Faculté … - 2011
The relative size of the State in industrialized economies has increased dramatically during the past century giving rise to legitimate fears that such a trend might end up having an adverse impact on growth. This paper explores the relationship between the development of government activities...
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Sustainability of Economic Growth through Public Investment
DONATH, Liliana; MILOS, Marius Cristian - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 4 (2011) 3(15), pp. 155-160
The issue of public investments became a very challenging subject for public decision makers since it incorporates the question of state performance, the quality of public finance and their effects on growth.The quality of public finance (QPF) is a multidimensional concept. It may be regarded as...
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Performance and efficiency of governments in OECD countries
Muraközy, László - In: Acta Oeconomica 62 (2012) September, pp. 321-344
and efficiency achieved. Taking the findings of the professional literature into account, we divided the developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822323
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Une décomposition de l'effet de la liberté économique sur la croissance dans les pays en développement
Abdelkafi, Rami; Derbel, Hatem - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2008
The lack of efficiency that characterized the economic policies of developing countries has prompted several economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005404308
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Public sector efficiency: Leveling the playing field between OECD countries
Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D; Kammas, Pantelis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we seek a robust methodology to measure the relative public spending efficiency of 19 OECD countries over … into its separate accounts and we employ a semi-parametric method to obtain relative efficiency scores (for the separate …. Finally, we propose a technique to measure the allocative efficiency of public spending, in an effort to proxy the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087510
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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: Evidence from OECD countries
Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D; Kammas, Pantelis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency. A … country-level dataset is used to measure public sector efficiency in delivering education and health services and the new …, between 1970 and 2000. Irrespective of whether public sector efficiency concerns education or health services, an inverted U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650679