Joumard, Isabelle; Kongsrud, Per Mathis; Nam, Young-Sook; … - In: OECD Economic Studies 2003 (2003) 2, pp. 109-161
In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past decades to the mid-1990s, but this trend has since abated. The spending pressures stemming from the continued expansion of social programmes have been partly compensated by transient or one-off factors....