Ebook: Government budgeting and expenditure controls : theory and practice

The volume seeks to build a bridge between public finance and public administration through a discussion of theories and related practices. Each chapter provides an introduction describing the state of the art, which is followed by a discussion of the usefulness and limitations of existing techniques, and of the directions of future improvements in them. It exiames the problems of budget formulation, the relation of programs to the attainment of various policy objectives, and the interplay between the economic and administrative aspects of budgeting. The book covers developments in budgeting and expenditure controls, discusses the efficacy of recent budget reforms, and analyzes successes or failures and the current status of these reforms.  Read more...