Shamsollah Shirinbakhsh; Amini Toktam; Javad Harati
Abstract
In this paper the effect of government size on social welfare (HDI) with using of
time series data in period 1990-2006 in 52 countries as well as, a panel model is
investigated.
Human development index (HDI) is calculated with average of three indices: Life
Expectancy Index, Education Index and GDP ...
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In this paper the effect of government size on social welfare (HDI) with using of
time series data in period 1990-2006 in 52 countries as well as, a panel model is
investigated.
Human development index (HDI) is calculated with average of three indices: Life
Expectancy Index, Education Index and GDP Index. In addition, two variables of
government consumption expenditures as a share of GDP and government
investment expenditures as a share of GDP for calculating variable of size of
government are used. The impact government consumption and investment
expenditures on the HDI with using of two separate equations and a panel model
with fixed effects are estimated.
Results suggested that government consumption and investment expenditure has a
positive and significant effect on the HDI, but it reduced over time. In addition, the
impact of a change in government investment expenditures takes longer to be fully
realized than does the impact of a change in government consumption expenditures,
such that half of the full impact of a change in government consumptionexpenditures on HDI is realized within 2.06 years, and half of the full impact of a
change in government investment expenditures is realized within 2.15 years.
