The Expanding Public Sector: Some Contrary Evidence

Beck, Morris

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“…Several studies have been conducted to establish the nature of changes in government expenditure across countries since Wagner's works in 1890 and Peacock and Wiseman's in 1961. These findings contradicted the theory that government spending increased in tandem with economic growth (Beck, 1976 and1979;andPluta, 1981 and1979).…”

Section: Wagner's Theorymentioning

confidence: 59%

Effect of government experience on education and health: Implications on economic growth of Nigeria 1981-2021

Akujuobi Chibuzo Anthony,

Tony-Okolo Chilezie Ngozi

2023

GSC Adv. Res. Rev.

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This study analyzed government expenditure and economic growth of Nigeria for the period 1981-2021. Government expenditure was proxied with expenditure on education, health, social and community services while government total investment and net foreign trade were included as the intervening variables. Economic growth was proxied with gross domestic product. The data were analyzed using econometric procedures particularly the Auto regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. The results showed that in the short run, government health expenditure exerted positive relationship with GDP which was not significant while education expenditure exerted significantly negative effect on the economy. The long run analysis revealed that government education expenditure had negative significant effect on GDP while health expenditure had positive significant effect on GDP. The intervening effects of social and community services expenditure and investment were positive but not significant while net foreign trade exerted negative effect in the model. The study concluded that government expenditure have not been appropriately channeled towards the education sector despite the amount spent on recurrent and capital expenditures to education whereas health expenditure increased growth in the economy significantly. It was recommended that government should increase budget allocations to education sector and also encourage private stake holders to invest in the education sector as well as engaging in foreign partnership in funding the health sector.

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Section: Wagner's Theorymentioning

confidence: 59%

Effect of government experience on education and health: Implications on economic growth of Nigeria 1981-2021

Akujuobi Chibuzo Anthony,

Tony-Okolo Chilezie Ngozi

2023

GSC Adv. Res. Rev.

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“…3. The following authors have used or advocated the use of real data: Davis et al (1974), Gist (1977), LeLoup, (1978, Baumgartner et al (1998), Su, Kamlet andMowery (1993), Beck (1976), Berry and Lowery (1987), Kamlet and Mowery (1987), White (1995), and Kiewiet and McCubbins (1991).…”

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Long-run and short-run budgeting: empirical evidence for canada, uk, and usa

Reddick

Hassan

2003

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &Amp; Financial Management

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This paper tests public budgeting as a long-run and short-run process; political decision makers strive to head toward budgetary balance over the long run but are constrained in the short run and follow incremental decision-making. First, the budget equilibrium theory is stated and is used to explain the relationship between revenues and expenditures. Second, the interaction between expenditures and revenues is tested with a vector error correction model for Canada, UK and the US, using annual time series data between 1948 and 2000. The results show that, in the long-run, revenues are the driving force behind the budget in Canada; in the UK expenditures force the budget toward balance. In the short-run, incrementalism occurs in both of these countries. The most interesting finding is for the United States where on-budget revenues and expenditures both push the budget toward balance over the longrun but there is no incrementalism in the process in the short-run. This, of course, is contrary to much of the existing literature.

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“…Measuring government size as the ratio of government spending to provincial economic output raises the issue of whether one should use differential deflators for the public and the private sectors. On one hand, some scholars argue for the use of real (differentially adjusted) values rather than nominal (unadjusted) values (Beck 1976(Beck , 1979Garand 1989Garand , 1991. They point out that the prices of goods and services rise at a faster rate in the public sector than in the private sector.…”

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Explaining the Evolution of Government Size in the Canadian Provinces

Pétry

Imbeau

Crête

et al. 2000

Public Finance Review

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PUBLIC FINANCE REVIEW Petry et al. / EVOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT SIZE Using time-series and time-series cross-section data from the 10 Canadian provinces, the authors test several competing explanations of government growth. Multivariate analyses reveal that the results are sensitive to how government size is measured. The authors find strong empirical support for the intergovernmental grants, the bureau voting, and the electoral budget cycle explanations irrespective of the measure of government size used. The party control explanation, the fiscal supply explanation, and part of Wagner's law give superior results when they are evaluated using real (adjusted) measures of government size than when they are evaluated using nominal (unadjusted) measures.

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The Expanding Public Sector: Some Contrary Evidence

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Effect of government experience on education and health: Implications on economic growth of Nigeria 1981-2021

Effect of government experience on education and health: Implications on economic growth of Nigeria 1981-2021

Long-run and short-run budgeting: empirical evidence for canada, uk, and usa

Explaining the Evolution of Government Size in the Canadian Provinces

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