This paper investigates the effect of provincial government size on economic growth using the panel data of 60 provinces over the period of 1997-2012. Empirical estimates are employed by conducting Difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991) and...

The development literature of the post-war period justified governmental intervention in economic development on a number of grounds such as market failure, trade pessimism and further impoverishment of poor countries through trade. In line with the prevalent mainstream thinking, the Indian...

Using a simple stochastic growth model that nests both exogenous and endogenous growth, this paper shows that the growth rate should be mean stationary if growth is exogenous and difference stationary if growth is endogenous and any variable affecting the investment rate is difference...

Switzerland has a tradition of decentralised government, decentralised tax setting and direct reference to the voters through referendums. Such mechanisms should give rise to lower taxes, better provision of public goods and higher economic growth. However, these mechanisms have not been...

There is a vast empirical literature investigating the relationship between government size and economic growth. But the empirical evidence of growth effects of public expenditure using cross-country regressions is still inconclusive. According to a number of authors this is not surprising since...

Sri Lanka directs its macroeconomic policies to fulfill its economic objectives. The variables of Government expenditure, Government size, Economic growth, Inflation, and Unemployment are vital in this regard. However, despite following strategies based on assumption of nexus between the said...