Based on the experience of budget management reforms that have been introduced over the last two decades in a large number of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) it is not uncommon to find emerging market economies moving toward performance-based...

In reviewing the means to strengthen public expenditure management (PEM) systems, there has been increased emphasis on the micro basis of broader budget system reforms, especially reforms of the internal financial management systems in government agencies. Specifically in transition economies,...

This article applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries. It is discovered: (1) that deficit financing does appear to contribute to increased real government spending; (2) that the demand for government services as a whole does not...

The paper by Tussing and Henning (1974), which recently appeared in this journal, falls into two parts. One reviews the “determinants†literature: the other presents the authors' own empirical results. The first part properly emphasises the need for a comprehensive approach to the...

This chapter discusses the changes that have taken place in the underlying structural relationships determining government expenditures between 1975 and 1986. The paper describes the methodological problems in analyzing the determinants of government expenditure patterns, and the issues involved...