Government expenditure and economic growth: Evidence from G7 countries

Applied Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1059-1068

  Kolluri, Bharat R ^a   Panik, Michael J ^a   Wahab, Mahmoud S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; G-7 COUNTRY; GROWTH DETERMINATION; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 0034118696     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368400322110     Document Type: Article

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