TY  - BOOK
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
TI  - Government Spending, Rights, and Civil Liberties
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451874545 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Budget Balance
KW  - imf
KW  - Budget Constraint
KW  - Equation
KW  - Government Spending
KW  - Institutions
KW  - Rights
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Italy
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Romania
KW  - Slovak Republic
N2  - Government spending plays a critical role in protecting and enforcing rights and civil liberties. Empirical evidence for a sample of industrial and developing countries shows that government expenditures on defense, law and order, social security, education, and health care are associated with three rights indicators-property rights, equality of citizens before the law, and economic freedom. In particular, an increase in spending on law and order seems to improve the indicators of rights and civil liberties, and lower budget deficits seem to improve property rights and equality before the law. Of great importance is the finding that corruption is associated with worse rights indicators
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