The place and significance of the public transfer expenses in Turkey (1995-2005)

This study aims to identify the place and significance of the publictransfer expenses in Turkey (1995-2005).The first section of the study covers the theoretical bases of the publicspending, the effects of changes in the functions of the state on publicspending, and some of the views concerning the increase in public spending.The second section deals with public spending according to economicclassification, spending in public economy and its role in GNDP, thedevelopment of transfer expenses in public spending, the structure of thetransfer expenses in the developing and developed countries, thedevelopment process of the transfer expenses in Turkey, kinds of transferexpenses, the structure of the transfer expenses in the Turkish budgetsystem.The final section of the study is about the economic effects of thetransfer expenses in Turkey and the measurement of these effects throughgranger causality with reference to the period of the last decade.