government failure

English

Noun

government failure (countable and uncountable, plural government failures)

1. (economics) A situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.

   Coordinate term: market failure

Translations

a situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market

• German: Staatsversagen n
• Hungarian: kormányzati kudarc

Further reading

• government failure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia