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  2. Economic growth - Wikipedia

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    The economic growth rate is typically calculated as real Gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, real GDP per capita growth rate or GNI per capita growth. The "rate" of economic growth refers to the geometric annual rate of growth in GDP or GDP per capita between the first and the last year over a period of time. This growth rate represents ...

  3. Wagner's law - Wikipedia

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    Economic: science and technology advance, consequently there is an increase of state assignments into the sciences, technology and various investment projects, etc. physical : the state resorts to government loans for covering contingencies, and thus the sum of government debt and interest amount grow; i.e., it is an increase in debt service ...

  4. Public economics - Wikipedia

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    Public economics (or economics of the public sector) is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity.Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve social welfare.

  5. Economic policy - Wikipedia

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    The first economic problem was how to gain the resources it needed to be able to perform the functions of an early government: the military, roads and other projects like building the Pyramids. Early governments generally relied on tax in kind and forced labor for their economic resources.

  6. Government spending - Wikipedia

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    However, the middle-income economies health spending grew more than 6%, and average annual growth in high-income countries was 3.5%, which is about twice as fast as economic growth. In contrast, health spending by the high-income countries continues to represent to be the largest share of global spending, which is about 81%, despite it covers ...

  7. Broad measures of economic progress - Wikipedia

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    GDP and other macro-economic indicators - provided by the System of National Accounts (SNA). Enlarged GDP measures - include costs such as expense of environmental degradation, resource depletion or higher income inequality. They provide a more accurate indication of a country's actual economic, environmental and social performance.

  8. Macroeconomics - Wikipedia

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    He argued that the role of money in the economy was sufficient to explain the Great Depression, and that aggregate demand oriented explanations were not necessary. Friedman also argued that monetary policy was more effective than fiscal policy; however, Friedman doubted the government's ability to "fine-tune" the economy with monetary policy.

  9. Federal budget (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a federal budget is the major plan for a federal government's estimated future revenues and spending for the coming fiscal year. [1] The federal budget is representation of the financial plan for the goals and activities of the government which in turn reflects the debates surrounding the various economical principles and ideas.