This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property...

This article examines the development of public budgeting since the Industrial Revolution to offer an explanatory framework on budgeting as a governance instrument. The article proposes that budgeting has evolved as innovations in financial administration to respond to socio-economic challenges...