Governments have overspent. In recent times the drive for economic recovery partly brought about by this overspending has seen governments screening entire portfolios of expenditure to see what they can reduce or terminate. The review process concerns the identification of goods and services...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a distributional impact assessment methodology to empirically analyze distributional impact of public expenditure on human development using data from 20 states in Nigeria. For robustness of the analysis, expenditure on education, health,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of public expenditure on economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries like India. If poverty and inequality are high, the government may resort to distributive policies at the cost of long-term growth. The...

One of the most important challenges that the member states of the European Union have before them lies in future decisions that will have to be adopted in relation to fiscal policy. Most of the economies share the aim of achieving public deficit reductions, without increasing fiscal pressure...

Along with most public institutions, public libraries are under attack for being socially unresponsive and economically unworthy of public funds. Looks at how urban libraries can defend their case by considering three main points: selecting appropriate methodology; building a framework for...

Using the example of capital charging in UK hospitals, this paper shows how new public policy initiatives are justified through forms of persuasion without numbers and can be challenged with empirics. A reading of official and academic texts shows how the official problem definition focuses on...

The aim of this article is to link research on market orientation in the field of marketing with the proposals of reform and modernisation made in the administrative and political field. Market orientation in business organisations is a highly topical issue, or even more, it is considered by...

Purpose – This paper aims to be nested in the empirical literature examining the impact of gender quotas for elected posts to local government councils ( panchayats ) in India. Gender quotas apply at the level of both head ( sarpanch , randomly assigned) and member (uniformly across councils)....

The beliefs that Government interferes with individual freedom and that private and public goods are competitive appear to be the two major reasons for man′s aversion to paying taxes. In reality, however, especially from a socio‐economic viewpoint, government also increases individual...

All post‐socialist countries began the transition process towards a market economy with very high shares of public expenditures in their gross domestic product. The policy question these countries face is whether to decrease the public expenditure rate (PER), and if so, to what level. Another...