Assessment of Financial Size of Central Government Current Transfer Expenditures

Determining the types and sizes of expenditures made from the central government budget is important in terms of the impact of expenditures on the economy. In addition to this effect, the classification of budget expenditures is required for both administrative, political and economic analyses in determining the effective use of resources. On the basis of accountability to the electorate, the executive body and policy-makers responsible for the budgetary document have the obligation to know and inform where they manage, how much they spend, what services are being offered at what cost, and the economic effects of the expenditure. In the study, firstly, focusing on the classification of public expenditures, the conceptual content of “the current transfer expenditures” which constitute the subject the investigation is explained. After the conceptual explanation, from 2006 to the present, the relation of the figures of these expenditures with inflation, elections and growth figures were examined. Secondly, these expenditures those do not aim to capital accumulation and are defined as unrequited payments made to the financing of current qualified goods and services have been examined and evaluated on the basis of sub-expenditure items in the year 2018, which is the presidential and parliamentary election year