Modelling Local Government Budgetary Choices under Expenditure Limitation

State and Local Government Choices in Fiscal Redistribution

Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez–Vazquez, & Sally Wallace The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, 30303 Abstract Economists have devoted relatively little attention to explaining why some state and local governments choose more progressive fiscal instruments than others. This paper provides an empirical model to identify the determinants of income redistribution...

Assessing Open Government Budgetary Data in Brazil

Budget transparency is an instrumental factor for better understanding the concept of budget within a democratic context. International codes for best governance practices in public management have appointed the internet as a communication media with the potential to provide this information in a timely and transparent manner to the several players in the society, and open government data has a...

The relationship between budgetary expenditure and economic growth in Poland

This paper investigates the association between different kinds of budgetary expenditure and economic growth of Poland. The empirical analysis makes use of linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests to evaluate the applicability of Wagner’s Law and that of the contrasting Keynesian theory. We employ aggregate and disaggregate data with the sub-categories of most important budgetary expenditur...

Budgetary Institutions and Expenditure Outcomes Binding Governments to Fiscal Performance

Government health expenditure in India

In their paper about progress towards universal health coverage in Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, South Africa (BRICS),1 Rao et al. report that in India in 2011, of total government expenditure, about 8% was expended on health. This estimate was from the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) global health observatory data respository,2 which is based on national health accounts. Fo...