Government Spending Adjustment: The OECD Since the 1990s

Equity in Latin America Since the 1990s

Pedro Sáinz is a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (INE) Chile and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografi a e Statistica (IBGE) on public information systems as well as on poverty analysis and policies. He was Director of the Economic Projections Centre and of the Statistical Division of the Economic Com...

The Optimal Share of Property Rights Protection Expenditure in Total Government Spending: The Case of Iran

Abstract The main purpose of this paper is to obtain the optimal amount of expenses of government relating to the protection of property rights (PPRs). To achieve these purposes we have introduced concept of social intelligence with respect to PPRs and then developed different growth model from existing literature. In the second step the optimal share of government spending on the PPRs is calcu...

Relative Efficiency of Government Spending and Its Determinants: Evidence from OECD and Asian Countries

Eric C. Wang National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan and Eskander Alvi Western Michigan University, USA Abstract The efficiency of government macro-performance is an essential element in pursuing economic development. The major purpose of this paper is to compare the efficiency results of Asian countries with those of OECD countries and to shed some light on LDCs. Two tasks are made in order to...

The Two Faces of Government Spending

Globalization and Government Spending around the World

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1999 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta GA, September 1-5 1999. I would like to thanks seminar participants at Harvard University, the Juan March Institute, UCLA, and the Yale Law School for helpful comments. Special thanks to Adam Przeworski, Ronald Rogowski, Alastair Smith and George Tsebelis for pushing...