... productivity, investment decisions and government expenditure in OECD countries. The framework for developing a nation is strengthened by investment choices and labor productivity, resulting in several development outcomes (Okun, 1962). Development has been a long-age phenomenon from the millennium...

...Afees Salisu; Douglason Godwin Omotor Purpose This study forecasts the government expenditure components in Nigeria, including recurrent and capital expenditures for 2021 and 2022, based on data from 1981 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach The study employs statistical/econometric problems...

... Licensed re-use rights only Shadow economy MIMIC Budget deficit Public debt Government welfare Government expenditure Economic sustainability The shadow economy has been identified as a noteworthy phenomenon in various academic studies in recent times, exerting a widespread influence...

..., the key variables, such as trade, government expenditure and foreign direct investment demonstrate no significant effect. Originality/value The current research is original in the sense that it investigated the issue with a new data set using improved econometric techniques. Moreover, in South Asia...

...: since some economists criticized Wagner’s law because of ambiguity of the measurement of government expenditure (Musgrave, 1969), instead of looking at aggregate public expenditures, the authors go much more granular into the different functions of government (to this end, the authors use...