The challenge of public administration reform is well-known: politicians often have little interest in the efficient implementation of government policy. Using new data from 439 World Bank public sector reform loans in 109 countries, we demonstrate that such reforms are significantly less likely...

This study investigates whether the expected outcome of better performance management, accountability and transparency in government following public sector accrual accounting reform would improve fiscal performance in terms of fiscal stability and fiscal sustainability. Measured as budget...

A growing literature connects labor market hardships to stronger preferences for government welfare and redistribution programs. Potential preference shifts with respect to other types of state involvement in the economy, however, have gone unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and...

A growing literature connects labor market hardships to stronger preferences for government welfare and redistribution programs. Potential preference shifts with respect to other types of state involvement in the economy, however, have gone unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and...

Post-Soviet economies are plagued by a public-sector practice whereby the Ministry of Finance cancels tax liabilities that enterprises owe it in exchange for debts the Ministry owes enterprises. While the practice seems innocuous enough to its practitioners, it has multiple distorting effects....

Presently, Indian agricultural extension has wide mandates and despite the pluralistic extension approaches, its coverage and use of services is limited; particularly in rain-fed regions that are represented by marginal and smallholder farmers’. Hence, there is need to develop “need-based”...

Bis zum Jahr 2020 werden die Fördermittel, die dem Freistaat Sachsen zur Verfügung stehen, erheblich abschmelzen. Der Rückgang der Finanzmittel fällt in Sachsen in eine Periode starker demographischer Verschiebungen. Da die Einnahmen der öffentlichen Haushalte zu großen Teilen an der...

One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...

The paper offers a new view of the role of state based on recognition of the economic ability of the state as a separate factor of production. This approach gives indirect taxes the status of factor income as state profit. If we were to apply the mechanism of producing and purchasing private...

Distributed ledger technology emerged in 2009 as the protocol behind bitcoin, a cryptocurrency with origins in the ‘cypherpunk' community who sought to use cryptography to secede from government control of money. Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto said Bitcoin would be “very...