In the case of a malaria or t.b. vaccine, this means that the government sizes up candidates, offers grants, and subsidizes drug companies, universities, or its own research teams as they experiment with the vaccines.
Under government size standards, newspaper publishers must have fewer than 500 employees to be considered small.
Similarly, when showing the relative size of government, the choice of denominator, such as nominal GDP, can further lead to undervaluing figures on government size.
It has become line in the sand issue for modern Republicans – not deficit reduction; not reducing government size.
On the contrary, if you look around the world there's a slight negative correlation between government size and prosperity.
We examine in this paper the relation between government size and capital and labor openness employing a panel of the 32 Mexican states over the period 1996-2006.
The point is not that all choices are efficient, but rather there is a selection bias in the data we observe on government size and performance.
"What has come to light surrounding G.S.A.'s activities should give pause to anyone who has opposed cutting government size and spending," he said.
They scale the stimulus spending based on the size of state governments, rather than the size of their populations, both because of the wide variation in state government size and because stimulus funds were distributed largely by state and local governments.
The Freedom Caucus, an outgrowth of the 2010 Tea Party movement, had been a loud voice for shrinking government size and spending under Barack Obama's presidency, but has been less outspoken in the Trump era.
