Academic Scientific JournalsEconomic efficiency of national governments: case study of Poland and Ukraine
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https://doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2021.3.03Keywords:
government, economic growth, government size, gross domestic product, gross free product per capita, Poland, UkraineAbstract
The article proposes a new unique approach to assessing the economic efficiency of national governments. The assessment is based on the indicator of gross free product per capita, which is a difference between GDP and government size per capita. This method was used to analyze the situation in two post-communist states – Poland and Ukraine. The author studied their economic development in 2009–2019, and the received data was used to draw conclusions about economic policies in the two countries in the period in question. A forecast has been made about the possible impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economic processes from the perspective of changes in the gross free product per capita.
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