This discussion paper considers the possibilities for bolstering political accountability using blockchain systems, and uses the 2018 Sierra Leonean elections to illustrate the case for enhanced transparency and accountability through the installment of blockchain-based technologies. The...

The public discourse on blockchains and cryptocurrencies has been influenced by a range of domains, but there is a “leisured” aspect to blockchains that warrants the attention of academics and practitioners, as this aspect serves to enrich the public engagement with this emergent branch of...

Universal Basic Income is a long-standing umbrella concept that is attracting ever more attention in light of the prognostications of a dire future wherein economic inequality is greatly exacerbated by various socioeconomic and technological factors. This discussion paper provides a synthesis of...

This article focuses on the importance of parliamentary oversight of the extractive industries in the South African context, and examines the potential of the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) towards serving the South African parliament vis-à-vis oversight of extractive resources. It points to...

This paper serves as a primer on the budgeting process of the Royal Air Force (the RAF-UK) and examines both the procedural elements of the RAF’s budget as well as its context within the overall UK budgeting framework. This serves to highlight the complexity of organizational budgeting for Air...

The notion of a Green New Deal as an ecology-centered economic stimulus program has garnered increasing political capital in recent years, particularly in OECD countries. However, resistance by political detractors has muddled the discourse under the accusation that it is a ‘far-fetched’ or...

The last decade has witnessed a surge of leveraging activity among emerging market corporations, and this has major implications both for riskiness in global equities, as well as for the mechanisms for fiscal oversight such as legislative scrutiny of national debt levels in developing countries....

The precipitous decline in the price of oil over the past year has raised questions about the sustainability of the budget trajectory in many resource-rich nations. Given the central parliamentary role in the budget process and the singular importance of extractive industries to Canada's fiscal...

The meteoric rise of Bitcoin has led to heightened investment, academic, commercial, numismatic, transactional, and practitioner interest in that cryptocurrency, as well as in the growing array of such instruments worldwide. This leads to an accentuated need for an examination of the historical...

Cryptocurrencies are an area of heightened pecuniary, numismatic, technological, and investment interest, and yet a comprehensive understanding of their theories and foundations is still left wanting among many practitioners and stakeholders. This discussion paper synthesizes and summarizes the...