Author: Allen, Richard Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A New Approach compares and contrasts the various instruments and approaches used by the World Bank, IMF, European Commission and other development agencies to assess and reform public financial manag...
Author: Gosling, James J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gosling clearly explains the intergovernmental dynamics of the actors, institutions, and processes of U.S. public budgeting-both now and through changes of the last several decades. Thoroughly updated...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bulgaria has made substantial progress toward long-term macroeconomic stability. Growth has been re-established, per capita income has improved, inflation has remained low, poverty has been reduced, a...
Description: The fastest growing sector of the financial services industry requires professionals from the fastest growing industry in history. There are reports of a shortage of private bankers and wealth manager...
Author: Cuevas, Carlos , E. / Fischer, Klaus , P. Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The paper addresses topics on which an agreement is necessary to arrive at consensus guidelines or "principles" of regulation and supervision of cooperative financial institutions (CFIs) in developing...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Ecuador's impressive fiscal performance of 2003 is encouraging, but fragile. Several structural bottlenecks could impede fiscal discipline and recovery, which is a pre-condition to develop a poverty ...
Author: Oliveira, Joao do Carmo Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The study overviews the most relevant, current intergovernmental fiscal issues in the Czech Republic, centered on the options available to prod policy planning. Fragmentation at the lowest tier of gov...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Domestic government debt markets play a critical role in managing public debt effectively and reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. Many aspects of debt markets - mon...
Author: Pellerin, Brigitte Publisher: Breakout Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With a unique blend of candour and humour, Down the Road Never Travelled chronicles the arduous journey Brigitte Pellerin and her fellow researchers undertook in their attempts to track a tax dollar t...
Author: Mochida, Nobuki Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is suitable for all those who want to understand the role and performance of Japan's central and local fiscal relations as an integral part of resource allocation, stabilization and redistri...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Fiscal sustainability analysis is the use of a simple set of tools to analyze a government's budget and its debt position, and leads to conclusions - given the government's debt level - about the app...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The design of intergovernmental fiscal transfers has a strong bearing on efficiency and equity of public service provision and accountable local governance. This book provides a comprehensive one-stop...
Author: Chorney, Tim Publisher: Breakout Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As Canadians, we hand over a substantial portion of our income to the government in the form of taxes, and we would like to believe that our hard-earned money is being put to good use. But few of us e...
Author: Ulbrich, Holley H. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance. The most notable feature of the 2nd edition of Pub...
Author: Ulbrich, Holley H. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance. The most notable feature of the 2nd edition of Pub...
Author: Irwin, Timothy Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Government decisions are rarely driven solely by the dictates of cost-benefit analyses. Generating good decision making about fiscal support also requires processes for decision making that facilitate...
Author: Innes, Jay Publisher: Breakout Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Secrets in High Places is the story of a group of young researchers who set out in the summer of 1998 to evaluate the Canada Infrastructure Works Program (CIWP), a government initiative that promised ...
Author: Sophastienphong, Kiatchai / Mu, Yibin / Saporito, Carlotta Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The financial sectors in South Asia Region (SAR) are dominated by commercial banks, which account for the vast majority of the financial system's assets. The domestic debt markets including the govern...
Author: World Bank, Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After almost a decade of successful macroeconomic management and several bold policy decisions, Indonesia is finally in a position of fiscal strength. Since 2006, Indonesia has freed up "fiscal space"...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to ge...
Author: Maimbo, Samuel Munzele Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The paper describes the operational characteristics of hawala in Afghanistan. It describes the system's geographic characteristics, convenience, effectiveness, cost, and its relationship with the form...
Author: Kocherlakota, Narayana R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, th...
Author: Kaplow, Louis Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the su...
Author: Wellisch, Dietmar Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The central question of this book is whether the assignment of government functions to the individual jurisdictions in a federal state can ensure an optimal allocation of resources and a fair income d...
Author: Ledgerwood, Joanna / White, Victoria Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In response to a clear need by low-income people to gain access to the full range of financial services including savings, a growing number of microfinance NGOs are seeking guidelines to transform fro...
Author: Benson, Charlotte Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report explores the macro-economic and public finance implications of natural disasters, including the role of information and mechanisms for risk spreading, and drawing in particular on evidence...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: According to the authors of Zambia, poverty is on the rise in the country, its economy is not growing fast enough, the quality of economic governance is on the decline, and its public resources are no...
Author: Ringold, Dena / Holla, Alaka Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In many low and middle income countries, dismal failures in the quality of public service delivery such as absenteeism among teachers and doctors and leakages of public funds have driven the agenda fo...
Author: Donahue, John D. / Zeckhauser, Richard J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and deli...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While doctors through the ages have thought that they had based their practice on evidence, a new movement based on the ideas of the Scottish doctor Archie Cochrane has shown that this might not be th...
Author: Cook, Philip J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family ...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds' provides a review of the design and experience of risk-based pension fund supervision in countries that have been leaders in the development of these methods....
Author: Li, Linda Chelan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China. How can some changes be sustained, whilst others cannot? How ca...
Author: Li, Linda Chelan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China. How can some changes be sustained, whilst others cannot? How ca...
Author: Martinez-Vasquez, Jorge Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the preface to this report, it is asserted that, " history hovers... over any discussion of fiscal federalism in Russia. " This report not only reviews that history, but also follows it to the pres...
Author: Kocherlakota, Narayana R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, th...
Author: Kaplow, Louis Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the su...
