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Public Spending in Mexico : How to Enhance Its Effectiveness

Larre, Bénédicte - 2001

Public sector reforms and a refocusing of spending, partly through privatisation, have created a leaner and more effective government in Mexico. Primary expenditure, at around 18 per cent of GDP in 1999, is less than half the average for the OECD. At the same time, there are important spending...

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Next Steps for Public Spending in New Zealand : The Pursuit of Effectiveness

Rae, David - 2002

This paper reviews public expenditure in New Zealand and the scope for further progress. Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has been a world leader in public management reforms. Government agencies have been transformed by delegating managerial responsibility to them and replacing input controls...

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Reforming Turkey's Public Expenditure Management

Gönenç, Rauf - 2005

Fiscal imbalances were a main cause for chronic high inflation and macroeconomic instability before the 2000/2001 crisis. Fiscal consolidation is the cornerstone of post-crisis stabilization. It has been quite successful over the past three years as sizeable primary surpluses have been sustained...

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Rationalising Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic

Gönenç, Rauf - 2004

Over the past decade, public expenditure in Slovakia was characterised by substantial social transfers and high public sector wage expenses. This paper analyses the main features of Slovakia’s public expenditure system, reviews expenditure trends, and discusses recent reform initiatives. The...

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Public Expenditure Management in Poland

Burns, Andrew - 2002

This paper assesses the public expenditure system in Poland and the scope for its reform. Though a number of important steps to control the future evolution of spending, such as pension reform and healthcare reform, have already made in Poland, much more needs to be done. Indeed budget...

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Rationalising Public Expenditure in the Slovak Republic

Gonenc, Rauf; Walkenhorst, Peter - 2008

Over the past decade, public expenditure in Slovakia was characterised by substantial social transfers and high public sector wage expenses. This paper analyses the main features of Slovakia's public expenditure system, reviews expenditure trends, and discusses recent reform initiatives. The...

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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy

Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022

We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...

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Immigration and voting on the size and the composition of public spending

Mayr, Karin - University of Vienna, Department of Economics - 2010

This paper develops a model to analyze the effects of immigration by skill on the outcome of a majority vote among … spending are crucial for the effects of immigration. In particular, immigrants of either skill can increase (decrease) the size …

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The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America

Mosley, Paul; Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru - 2016

One key element in the reduction of poverty and (in Latin America) inequality has been the achievement of greater fiscal equity; we analyse one key part of this process, which is the earmarking of portions of tax revenue to be spent on progressive public expenditures such as social protection,...

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Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation : evidence from the United Kingdom's age of austerity

Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno; Metzger, Laura - 2023

, and peaceful protesting-and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual … from austerity increases political participation and strengthens preferences for government redistribution. The … experimental data suggests that changes in individual preferences for redistribution significantly shape the effect of austerity on …

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