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Tracing the Link between Government Size and Growth: The Role of Public Sector Quality.
- Source :
- Kyklos; May2013, Vol. 66 Issue 2, p229-255, 27p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper shows evidence of strong heterogeneity in the relationship between government size and growth, depending on the quality of public sector institutions. Focusing on a wide sample of developed and developing countries over the period 1981-2005, we find that government size reduces growth when bureaucracy quality is low, whereas no significant effect is observed for sufficiently high levels of bureaucracy quality. The results hold both in cross-section and panel data analyses and are robust to a large number of robustness checks. These findings have important implications for assessing the role of government size in economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GOVERNMENT size
PUBLIC sector
BUREAUCRACY
ECONOMIC development
DEVELOPING countries
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00235962
- Volume :
- 66
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Kyklos
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 86927666
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12019