"government failure" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: government failures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Economics Translations (a situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market): Staatsversagen [neuter] (German), kormányzati kudarc (Hungarian)

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