The Japanese Fiscal Investment and Loan Progam (FILP) will be fundamentally changed in April 2001. We are comparing the pre- and post-reform Japanese system with the German system of policy-based finance and we have found that the German system is quite different. In the case of the...

Although LEEs are meant to be self-sustaining, if not revenue-generating units, many of them actually incur losses on a continuing basis. Current practice in many LGUs does not engender a clear appreciation of the true cost of the local economic enterprise. COA has documented many cases where...

Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte am Beispiel der deutschen Abwasserwirtschaft zeigen, daß Privatisierungen möglich und auch notwendig sind, zahlreiche Faktoren jedoch dazu beitragen, daß es eben nicht zu diesen Privatisierungen kommt.

The article explores potential interrelationships between New Public Management reforms in the public sector and corrupt behavior of public servants, politicians and/or private providers of public services. It reflects on the impact of different reform strategies on corruption, analyzes possible...

Dieses Papier analysiert das Marketing deutscher Nahverkehrsbetriebe unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Werbung ihres Branchenverbands.