2006
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.914104
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Government Spending and Economic Growth in the European Union Countries: An Empirical Approach

Abstract: The relationship between government spending and economic growth is an important and controversial issue in modern societies. In this paper, the correlation between economic growth and government expenditure is studied. The analysis is based on data for the European Union countries and panel data techniques are used.

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“…Whilst this is no indicator of the extensiveness or quality of welfare provision, it does show that the neoliberal imperative of welfare retrenchment has been insignificant to the Greek case. As a percentage of GDP, total public expenditure in Greece rose from the 1960s onwards, but largely remained below European and OECD averages (see Economou, 2004;Pascual & Alvarez-García, 2006;Paternoster et al, 2008;OECD, 2009b). Despite regular and recently amplified criticisms, the size of Greece's public sector workforce and related expenditure upon wages and public pensions have stayed close to average EU and OECD levels.…”
Section: The Expansion Of Welfare Expenditurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Whilst this is no indicator of the extensiveness or quality of welfare provision, it does show that the neoliberal imperative of welfare retrenchment has been insignificant to the Greek case. As a percentage of GDP, total public expenditure in Greece rose from the 1960s onwards, but largely remained below European and OECD averages (see Economou, 2004;Pascual & Alvarez-García, 2006;Paternoster et al, 2008;OECD, 2009b). Despite regular and recently amplified criticisms, the size of Greece's public sector workforce and related expenditure upon wages and public pensions have stayed close to average EU and OECD levels.…”
Section: The Expansion Of Welfare Expenditurementioning
confidence: 99%