Examining Factors that Drive Government Spending in South Africa
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Keywords
Expenditure; government spending; capital expenditure; current expenditure; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2020-01-06 (Macroeconomics)
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