A casual relationship between government spending and economic development: An empirical examination of the Greek economy

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 457-464

  Dritsakis, Nikolaos ^a   Adamopoulos, Antonis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 16544383034     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840410001682151     Document Type: Article

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