Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/221806 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EconPol Working Paper No. 46
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
We discuss and provide an overview of the size and role of the government, notably in terms of what the government "should" do, how the government could spend and intervene in the economy, how much governments spend and what they spend their money on. This is done from a historical perspective and also in a stylized way via assessing total expenditure, the composition of public expenditure for advanced, emerging and developing countries.
Subjects: 
public spending
size of government
expenditure composition
public sector efficiency
JEL: 
B00
E62
H11
H50
H62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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