Public Finance category: 2897 books

Cover of Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015

The subnational dimension of infrastructure has emerged as one of the greatest challenges in contemporary public finance policy and management. Ensuring the efficient provision of infrastructure represents a challenge for all countries irrespective of their level of centralization or decentralization....
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Financial Sustainability in Public Administration

Exploring the Concept of Financial Health

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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017

This book analyses the methods used to assess financial sustainability as defined by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Recently, there have been calls to consider sustainability as a fundamental guiding principle in public management. The financial and economic crisis has spurred...
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Public Sector Revenue

Principles, Policies and Management

by Alberto Asquer
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017

In this time of acute financial pressure on public budgets, there is an increasing interest worldwide in alternative ways for governments to raise money, and how public authorities can develop the capacity to administer revenues efficiently and effectively. Taxation, the primary source of public revenue,...
Cover of The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics
by Louis Kaplow
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results,...
Cover of Public Financial Management and Its Emerging Architecture
by M. Mr. Cangiano, Teresa Ms. Curristine, Michel Mr. Lazare
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they...
Cover of Public Sector Accounting
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

As change sweeps across the public sector, a huge range of accounting and financial management challenges are created. This textbook analyses the reforms that are being introduced to deal with these challenges and their global impact on the public sector. Readers are provided with an international...
Cover of Public Finance For Poverty Reduction: Concepts And Case Studies From Africa And Latin America
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007

This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrate how these concepts are applied in practice and the implementation issues that emerge.
Cover of Quasi-Fiscal Operations of Public Financial Institutions
by G. Mr. Mackenzie, Peter Mr. Stella
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1996

Central banks and other public financial institutions act as agents of fiscal policy in many countries. Their "quasi-fiscal" operations and activities can affect the overall public sector balance without affecting the budget deficit as conventionally measured, may also have important allocative effects,...
Cover of Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Aging
by Keimeir Kaizuka, Anne Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006

This volume examines how Japan should cope with its daunting fiscal challenges. As the Japanese economy finally emerges from a long period of weak growth and falling prices burdened by record-high public debt, fiscal adjustment has taken center stage in the policy agenda and the public debate. Growing...
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Public Debt Management

Separation of Debt from Monetary Management in India

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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

This book examines the objectives of public debt management and the re-emerging issue of separating monetary policy formulation from fiscal and debt management. The recent Great Recession has resulted in a rethink of the objectives and working of macroeconomics, and in many countries, including India,...
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International Public Procurement

Innovation and Knowledge Sharing

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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016

Using a comparative framework, this volume presents case studies of issues of public procurement and discusses how procurement professionals and policy makers in different regions are responding to these challenges. This book discusses current issues in public procurement. Over the past few decades,...
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Public Service Efficiency

Reframing the Debate

by Rhys Andrews, Tom Entwistle
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014

The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to...
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by S.S. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

In all highly industrialized countries public expenditures are a substantial and growing share of total economic activity. The authors integrate normative and positive theory and empirical analysis of public expenditure, concentrating on the optimal provision of public goods and the estimation of...
Cover of Financial Sustainability of Public Sector Entities

Financial Sustainability of Public Sector Entities

The Relevance of Accounting Frameworks

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019

This book analyses the role of public sector accounting, and the relevance of accounting frameworks, in assisting financially sustainable policy making. Focussing on the European context, the book examines financial reporting, management accounting, budgeting and other reporting requirements, for...
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