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GOVERNMENT CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE [8 records]

Record 1 2015-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
CONT

GNP and NNP are definable as the sum of... : personal consumption expenditure on goods and services, plus government expenditure on goods and services, plus investment expenditure...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Saving and Consumption
  • National and International Economics
CONT

Public consumption is the current expenditure of the government on such items as health, education, and defence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Épargne et consommation
  • Économie nationale et internationale
CONT

On distingue deux types d'acteurs de la consommation : la consommation privée (les individus qui utilisent un bien ou un service pour usage personnel) et la consommation publique (composée par les services des administrations et collectivités publiques).

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Government Accounting
CONT

Final consumption expenditure by government comprises two main categories with respect to who has produced the consumption goods and services.(a) Expenditure on individual services(e. g. education and health) and collective services(e. g. general administration and defense) produced by government itself that are supplied free or at prices that are not economically significant(other non-market output). By convention, such output is recorded as final consumption expenditure by government.(b) Expenditure on consumption goods and services purchased by government from market producers and supplied directly to households without further processing i. e. as social benefits in kind.

Key term(s)
  • government final consumption

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Comptabilité publique
CONT

La dépense de consommation finale recouvre les dépenses consacrées par les unités institutionnelles résidentes à l'acquisition de biens ou de services qui ont été utilisés pour la satisfaction directe des besoins individuels ou collectifs des membres de la communauté.

Key term(s)
  • consommation finale du gouvernement
  • dépense de consommation finale du gouvernement

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • National Accounting
OBS

Used to classify consumption expenditure other current expenditure, capital expenditure and other outlays of government.

OBS

United Nations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Comptabilité nationale
OBS

Nations Unies.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Contabilidad nacional
OBS

Naciones Unidas.

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Record 5 2002-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • Public Sector Budgeting
DEF

Transfer of income that does not involve a quid pro quo and which is non-contractual in character, for example, direct taxes, social security benefits and contributions, social assistance grants and grants between governments to finance the military or other consumption expenditure or budgetary deficit of a government.

Key term(s)
  • unrequited remittance
  • unilateral transfer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Budget des collectivités publiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Presupuestación del sector público
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Record 6 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
OBS

GNP [the gross national product] and NNP [the net national product] are definable as the sum of three major components : personal consumption expenditure on goods and services, plus government expenditure on goods and services, plus investment expenditure-where it is understood that in GNP gross investment expenditure on all new machines and construction is included, whereas in NNP only the net investment expenditure is included, there having been subtracted from the gross births of capital goods an appropriate depreciation allowance to take account of deaths, or using up of capital goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements

Spanish

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Record 7 1981-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
OBS

The view of monetarists(...) clashes with the view of the majority's post-Keynesian synthesis-that, while M [money supply] matters much, so also do tax, expenditure, and investment shifts in C+I+G [consumption + investment + government expenditure], and that "leaning against the wind" will improve on automatic M [money supply] rules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques

Spanish

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Record 8 1980-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Administration
CONT

To the flow of(1) consumption product and(2) investment product, they simply add(3) all government expenditure on goods and services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration fédérale

Spanish

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