compensation that does not justify a debt. The paper examines public finance, political economy, and financial market issues that …

"We develop a method for identifying and quantifying the fiscal channels that help finance government spending shocks …

"We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised … finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that …

work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security …, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the extreme, in some cases better public finance management could … complementary tools to analyze the security sector from the point of view of public finance management, service delivery, and …