Government operations Totally Explained

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This article aims to describe the financial expenditure associated with the operations and processes of world governments of all levels.

Size of economic footprint

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:

Communications
Education (for example community college)
Emergency services
Entertainment (for example Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Entitlements
Financial services
Financing
Fire fighting
Healthcare
Insurance
Law
Law enforcement
Police
Postal service
Transport (for example government transportation)

Goods

Government agencies may produce goods like:

Coal

Electrical infrastructure

Oil (for example Pemex)

Roads, bridges, tunnels

Sewers

Steel

Water infrastructure

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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