According to data released by the RF Federal Treasury, in Q3 2013 the decline in federal budget revenues was occurring at a slightly slower rate than previously. Thus, over the course of January-September 2013, the federal budget's revenue and its oil and gas revenues dropped by 1.7 p.p. of GDP...

Russia's Federal Treasury reports that in the period of January thru August 2013 federal budget revenues and expenditures contracted by 2.2 and 1.7 p.p. of GDP respectively, as compared to the corresponding period in 2012. At the end of eight months of 2013 the federal budget ran a surplus of Rb...

According to the Federal Treasury's estimates, the volume of federal budget revenue over the first 7 months of 2013 dropped by 2.2 p.p. of GDP on the corresponding period of 2012. As a positive fact, it can be noted that the rate of decline in the volume of federal budget expenditure as a share...

The results of federal budget implementation in H1 2013 show that federal budget revenues dropped 2.1 p.p. of GDP year-on-year, while consolidated budget revenues of the constituent territories of the Russian Federation declined 1.7 p.p. of GDP in January-May 2013 against the first five months...

According to the Federal Treasury data, over January-July 2015, Russia's federal budget revenues contracted 1.3 p.p. of GDP, and expenditures went up 3.3 p.p. of GDP on the same period of the previous year. Revenues and expenditures of the consolidated budgets of the constituents of the Russian...

According to the data recently released by the Federal Treasury, over January–June 2015, the federal budget revenues contracted 1.9 p.p. of GDP, and expenditures went up 2.6 p.p. of GDP on the same period of the previous year. Revenues and expenditures of the consolidated budgets of the...

According to the data released by the Federal Treasury, by the period-end for January-November 2015 the federal budget revenues as a share of GDP have reached their high of 18.0% of GDP during eleven months of the current year. Prior to that, the lowest indicator for the federal budget revenues...

How do states respond to political resistance? The standard repression or concession logic presumes that the state is strong enough to punish or co-opt dissent effectively. Instead, we argue that the state may disengage when it is weak. We show that colonial governments in French West Africa...

We compare the size, structure and evolution of the public sectors in Canada and the United States primarily using national income accounting data. In the course of this investigation, which is accompanied by a substantial spreadsheet covering the period from 1929 to 2003/2004, questions are...

The Australian public sector experiences significant turmoil in performance information disclosures as it adopts New Public Financial Management oriented changes. While these changes aim to promote greater accountability, we raise concerns about the effectiveness of current disclosures,...