Public Finance category: 2897 books
Pensions: More Information, Less Ideology
Assessing the Long-Term Sustainability of European Pension Systems: Data Requirements, Analysis and Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older. Many European countries have responded to the ensuing financial pressure by reforming their public pension systems and health care programmes. There is considerable uncertainty as to the effects of these reforms...
by Ahsan Mansur, Edouard Mr. Maciejewski
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1996
The paper analyzes the major progress Jordan has made in recent years in macroeconomic stabilization and the transformation of its economic structure. It discusses recent economic developments, macroeconomic policies, and structural reforms and examines the factors underpinning growth, including structural...
Public-Private Partnership Projects in Infrastructure
An Essential Guide for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Infrastructural investment is critical to economic growth, quality of life, poverty reduction, access to education, health care, and the achievement of many of the goals of a robust economy. But infrastructure is difficult for the public sector to get right. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) can...
Looking for Consensus
Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers. The peak of the crisis might be passing but the crisis for civil society and civic institutions of governance and leadership...
by Michael D. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Here's Good News for Governments: a More Attractive Alternative to Raising Tax Rates!In recent years, headlines have announced new government funding crises almost daily. High levels of public spending and debt have created difficult challenges for lawmakers everywhere.Conventional...
The Scourge of Europe (Routledge Revivals)
The Public Debt Described, Explained, and Historically Depicted
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of Europe examines the economic issues surrounding the existence of public debt, its history, and possible approaches to problems associated with public...
Applied Analysis of Growth, Trade, and Public Policy
Ten Years of International Academic Exchanges Between JAAE and KEBA
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book analyzes the various problems of growth, trade and public policy from the perspective of applied economics, based on research in areas such as public policies, trade and regulation, and development economics. Part 1 investigates the broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing...
The Political Economy of Public Debt
Three Centuries of Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
How have the most influential political economists of the past three centuries theorized about sovereign borrowing and shaped its now widespread use? That important question receives a comprehensive answer in this original work, featuring careful textual analysis and illuminating exhibits of public debt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book deals with the role of the State in pension provision as an employer, regulator and provider. Part I deals with problems and reforms of public sector pension systems in OECD countries. The countries covered are Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, and the USA. Part II considers...
Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy
How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...
Participatory Budgeting in Europe
Democracy and public governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Can participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of participatory budgeting in Europe and the effect it has had on democracy, the modernization of local...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing fiscal...
Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships
Strategies for Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private...
The Legacy of June Pallot
Public Sector Financial Management Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together a selection of June Pallot's most significant work. Written from a country (New Zealand) that led the world in many aspects of its financial management reforms, this work provides thoughtful comment on matters that remain of crucial importance today, especially the constitutional...