Is It an Appropriate Scale of Social Assistance Fiscal Expenditure at the Present Stage？——Based on the Analysis of “Barro’s Law”and Cobb-Douglas Production Functions
Li Chungen1 Chen Wenmei1,2
1.Finance and Public Administration School， Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics， Nanchang 330013；2.College of Public Management， Guizhou University of Finance and Economics，Guizhou 550025
Abstract：As the most basic and important part of governmnet expenditure of livelihood， an appropriate scale of social assistance fiscal expenditure needs to satisfy the requierments of securing basic livelihood and preventing the social assistance objects from generating welfare dependence. The paper firstly interprets the relationship between economic development and social assistance fiscal expenditure from the theoretical level. Then it uses “Barro’s law”， Cobb-Douglas production functions and regression analysis to measure the appropriate scale of social assistance fiscal expenditure in different regions in the whole country from 2005 to 2015. The research results show that， the actual expenditure scale of social assistance has gradually become reasonable at present but still needs further improvement and optimization on the whole in our country； From the perspective of different regions，the actual expenditure in the eastern region is slightly higher than the appropriate scale and the actual scale in the central region has been increasing to the appropriate scale， but there is a wide gap between the actual expenditure and the appropriate scale in the western region. Finally，the paper proposes the differentiation strategy should be taken for different regions.
李春根 陈文美,. 现阶段我国社会救助财政支出规模适度吗？——基于“巴洛法则”与柯布－道格拉斯生产函数的分析[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2018, 57(4): 49-58.
Li Chungen Chen Wenmei,. Is It an Appropriate Scale of Social Assistance Fiscal Expenditure at the Present Stage？——Based on the Analysis of “Barro’s Law”and Cobb-Douglas Production Functions. journal1, 2018, 57(4): 49-58.
2018, Vol. 57 
