The paper attempts to study the Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in the field of urban water and sanitation in Delhi region in order to ascertain the hypothesis that the budgeting and planning impacts the lives of women and girls disproportionately compared to men and boys. The study finds that...

We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure...

This study aims to obtain input, and is expected to give more value to the activities of budget planning and development spending in the Province of Jakarta Indonesia. In detail the purpose of this study is to provide recommendations for planning development budget in developing leading sectors...

We propose and test a positive model of fiscal federalism in which centralization is less likely to occur in jurisdictions with referendum decisions on policy centralization. Citizens choose centralization of public spending and revenue in order to internalize spillovers if individual...

This paper develops a new measure of state and local fiscal sustainability called the "trend gap," which is based on socioeconomic and other fundamental factors and removes the short-term influence of the business cycle. The paper estimates the trend gap and finds that the nationwide per capita...

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...

Previous theoretical and empirical research has shown that policymakers have an incentive to centralize government activities in order to weaken the com-petitive pressure of fiscal federalism. We propose and test a positive model of fiscal federalism in which centralization is less likely to...

Bangladesh introduced Value Added Tax (VAT) on July 1, 1991. It has replaced the excise duty on domestic production at the production stage and sales tax on imports at the import stage. The change was intended to be revenue neutral, with some exemptions of agricultural and service sectors and...

This paper deals with 2011 Russia's state budget. Authors speak about general characterisitcs of the budget system in Russia. They analyse revenues from major taxes and main parameters of the federal budget in 2011 and for 2012-2014, explain budget expenditures and give prospects of the...

Discounting of cash flow is the operation widespread in financial sector. But it is applied only to the corporate finance. In the article the opportunity of discounting of incomes and charges of the state budget is investigated. Besides in the article the opportunity of application of rules of...