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...

At independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in line with nationalist and Marxist-Leninist...

This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

1. Introduction -- 2. Non-routine problems and flexibility -- 3. Flexibility, inflexibility and budgeting -- 4. Budget rules and budget flexibility -- 5. Budget reform and rule modification -- 6. Calibrating budget flexibility and control: A new role for rule variability -- 7. Conclusion. .

How and Where Government Spends Money: Public Budgeting Reform and Citizen Participation -- Institutional Reform and Innovation in the Public Financing System -- ays to Promote Public Budgeting Reform -- A Constitutional Perspective on the Financial Transfer Payment System in China -- A...

Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf die Frage, welche personellen und organisatorischen Faktoren die erfolgreiche Realisierung einer Innovation begründen. Der Autor wirft hierfür einen Blick auf die Motive der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, welche Änderungen umsetzen müssen. Am Beispiel der...

This study develops a reform proposal for the future revenue system of the EU budget. The findings strongly reject the idea that a reform based on an EU tax-based own resource would remedy current problems. Against the background of the status quo analysis the authors present a reform model...

Competitive elections in many parts of Africa generate powerful incentives to presidential candidates (and to a lesser extent political parties) to brand themselves in ways that transcend regional or ethnic loyalties. In Malawi, Joyce Banda - President from 2012 to 2014 - sought to distinguish...