Deficyt fiskalny a racjonalność wydatków publicznych

• Authors: Piotr Ptak

Title variants

EN

Fiscal Deficit Against Public Spending Rationality

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the long run the fiscal deficit contributes to a reduction in potential GDP growth rate by at least a few channels. Two of them are related to the structure of public expenditure. Both the growth and maintenance of chronic deficit, lead to a permanent increase in public debt the interest of which - in the first place - crowd out developmentsupporting expenditures, i.e. spending for such purposes as: infrastructure, research and development. Moreover, the deficit leads to a diversion of public funds for goals, which are beneficial rather to the specific groups of society than to society as a whole, which, in turn, does not promote rationality and productivity of public spending. The purpose of this article is to show that both in the short and long-term the fiscal deficit is not conducive to rational public spending and leads to the deterioration in their structure.

Keywords

PL

Deficyt budżetowy; Efektywność finansowa; Finanse publiczne; Wydatki publiczne

EN

Budget deficit; Financial efficiency; Public expenditures; Public finance

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
• Journal: Studia Ekonomiczne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 180 cz 2
• Pages: 236-246

Contributors

author

Piotr Ptak

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ISSN

2083-8611