This article aims to describe the financial expenditure associated with the
operations and
processes of world
governments of all levels.
Size of economic footprint
The scale to which government should exist and operate in the world is a matter of debate. Government spending in
developed countries varies considerably but generally makes up between about 30% and 70% of their
GDP. One major exception is the United States, where central government spending takes up less than 20% of GDP.
Services
Government agencies may produce
services like:
Goods
Government agencies may produce
goods like:
Local government
At the level of
local government, territorial or other authorities may set up government corporations such as "
Local Authority Trading Enterprises" (LATEs).
Commonwealth of Nations
See also: crown corporation, state-owned enterprises of New Zealand
In monarchical
commonwealth countries country-wide government corporations often use the style "
crown corporation". Notable exceptions include both the
state-owned enterprises and the
crown entities in
New Zealand. Examples of crown corporations include the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in
Canada and
Air Canada before it underwent privatisation.
Cabinet ministers (ministers of the crown) often control the
shares in such
public corporations.
United Kingdom
Main article: Departments of the United Kingdom Government
United States
In the
United States, businesses that are government owned include
Amtrak and the
United States Postal Service. Many
states have government owned businesses for operations as well. Generally speaking, a
statute passed by a legislature specifically sets up a government owned company in order to undertake a specific public purpose with public funds or public property.
Privatization
Main article: privatization
Privatization is the transfer of ownership from the
public sector (government) to the
private sector (business).
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All levels
Federal level
Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets
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Process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system[1][2][3][4][5][6][7].
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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Public ownership (also called government ownership, state ownership or state property) refers to government ownership of any asset, industry, or corporation at any level, national, regional or local (municipal); or, it may refer to common (full-community)
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Economic policy
Monetary policy
Central bank Money supply
Fiscal policy
Spending Deficit Debt
Trade policy
Tariff Trade agreement
Finance
Financial market
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gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the ways for measuring the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time (usually a calendar year).
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Service can refer to:
- Public services, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
- A penetrant, as defined by a building code
- Service (Systems Architecture), the provision of a discrete business or technology function within a systems environment; i.
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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom.
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A community college is a type of educational institution. The term has different meanings in different countries.
In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a county college, junior college, technical college, or a
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Emergency services are organisations that that ensure public safety by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal responsibilities.
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Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person).
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (English)
Société Radio-Canada (French)
Type Broadcast radio network
Television network
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Financial services is a term used to refer to the services provided by the
finance industry.
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Firefighting is the act of extinguishing destructive fires. A firefighter fights these fires and prevents destruction of life, property and the environment. Firefighting is a highly technical profession which requires years of training and education in order to become
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Health care, or healthcare, is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
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LAW may refer to:
- Lightweight Anti-tank Weapon, like the M72 LAW (US Army) and the LAW 80 (British Army)
- Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights (also known as LAW)
- League of American Bicyclists, formerly known as the League of American Wheelmen
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Police are agents or agencies empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimate use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a
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Postal service may refer to:
- United States Postal Service
- Mail, anything sent through postal services
- The Postal Service, an electronic indie pop band
..... Click the link for more information. Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans ("across") and portare ("to carry").
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Public transport, public transportation, public transit or mass transit comprise all transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles.
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A good or commodity in economics is any object or service that increases utility, directly or indirectly, not to be confused with good in a moral or ethical sense (see Utilitarianism and consequentialist ethical theory).
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Coal (IPA: /ˈkəʊl/) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation.
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Infrastructure is generally structural elements that provide the framework supporting an entire structure. The term has diverse meanings in different fields, but is perhaps most widely understood to refer to roads, airports, and utilities.
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The acronym
OIL can refer to:
- Output Input Language
- Office of Infrastructure and Logistics - Luxembourg
- Ontology Inference Layer or Ontology Interchange Language, an Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web.
- Oil India Limited.
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