What is it about?
This paper examines empirically whether the relationship between government size (measured by the ratio between total government expenditure and GDP) and economic growth in Egypt is a non-linear relationship, and accordingly, it estimates the growth-maximizing size of government.
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Why is it important?
This publication is important since it provides an empirical investigation on the optimal government size in Egypt and answers the question of whether the Egyptian economy has exceeded this optimal size or not yet.
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I think this publication significantly contributes to the existing literature on the optimal government size through providing an empirical analysis of this topic for an economy like Egypt, where calls for cutting the government expenditure so as to improve the country's fiscal stance are dominant.
Dr Israa A. El Husseiny
Cairo University
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This page is a summary of: The optimal size of government in Egypt: an empirical investigation, The Journal of North African Studies, January 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1428798.
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