Public Spending in the 20th Century: A Global Perspective

By V. Tanzi, Ludger Schuknecht. 2000

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Part I. The Growth of Government: A Historical Perspective: 1. The growth of government since 1870 2. The composition of public expenditure 3. Revenue, deficits, and public debt Part II. Gains from the Growth of Public Expenditure: 4. Historical evidence on government performance 5. The size of government and its performance 6. The experience of the newly-industrialized economies Part III. The Role of the State and Government Reform: 7. Rethinking the role of the state 8. Fiscal rules and institutions 9. Blueprint for public expenditure reduction Part IV. Recent Countries' Experiences in Reforming the Government: 10. Recent reform experience 11. Fiscal reform in the public debate 12. The future of public spending.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Pitfalls on the Road to Fiscal Decentralization (2002, background): “See Tanzi and Schuknecht (2000) for evidence on the growth of government spending during the last century.”
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship (2021, background): “Many countries have seen an increase in government size and taxes (Mueller, 2004; Tanzi & Schuknecht, 2000).”
The social cost of rent seeking in Europe (2009, background): “Large parts of transfers are ostensibly the result of interest group activity (Tanzi and Schuknecht, 2000).”
Determinants of Government Efficiency (2008, background): “Against this background, government efficiency at the aggregate level has thus become the subject of a rapidly growing literature, including key contributions by Gupta and Verhoeven (2001), Tanzi and Schuknecht (1997, 2000), and Afonso et al. (2005).”
Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State? (2001, methodology): “S. 0.6 4.7 5.7 5.6 7.6 7.8 Source: Authors' calculations based on data from Tanzi and Schuknecht (2000) and OECD Economic Outlook database, no. 68, 2000. a.”
How Useful are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public Education and Health Spending? (2003, background): “…on education can occur on more than three levels (e.g., preschool, vocational training, junior secondary, senior secondary), but the majority of studies focus on the three traditional levels. to define a “middle class” (Tanzi, 1974; Alesina, 1998; Tanzi and Schuknecht, 2000; and Easterly, 2001).”
Public sector efficiency: evidence for new EU member states and emerging markets (2010, background): “A first macro-measurement attempt was made by Tanzi and Schuknecht (1997, 2000) in trying to assess the benefits from total public spending in 18 industrialized countries.”
Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample (2008, neutral): “This group includes Canada, Japan, Korea and Switzerland in all time periods we have data for; and Australia, Finland and the USA in most time periods (here we report those countries with more than one observation/time period; see Table A.1 for all countries). However, for most countries and time pe”
Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries (2008, neutral): “For example, it has been pointed out (see e.g. Tanzi and Schuknecht, 2000) that the main difference between big-government and small-government OECD countries lies in the spending for social security and welfare.”
Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in the EU: Long-Run Tendencies and Short-Term Adjustment (2008, neutral): “3 Reviews of the findings in this strand of literature are provided, for instance, in Peltzman (1980), Borcherding (1985)), Tanzi and Schuknecht (2000). higher government expenditure shares on GDP than countries with majoritarian election (Persson, Roland, and Tabellini (2006)) and by government…”