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Author Premchand, A., 1933- author.

Title Public expenditure management / A. Premchand
Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Public Expenditure Management as a Composite Culture -- Comparison of Public and Private Practices -- Governance and Transparency -- Definitions and Distinctions -- Expenditure Management -- Control Framework -- Management Process -- Nature of Controls -- Expenditure Controls -- Toward the SEEE Paradigm -- 2 Institutional Aspects of Public Expenditure Management . -- Typologies and Their Viability -- Systems Groups -- Other Approaches -- Current Practices -- Modular Presentation of Features
3 Managing Fiscal StressWhat Is Fiscal Stress? -- Corporate Practices During Stress -- Issues and Approaches -- Legal Powers -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Forward Expenditure Planning -- Global Targets -- Uncertainty -- Budget Formulation -- Expenditure Reviews -- Efforts at Restraint -- Personnel Restraint -- Across-the-Board Cuts -- Specific Sectoral Cuts -- Maintaining Policy Targets -- Assessment -- Removal of Drawbacks -- 4 Compliance -- Central and Spending Agencies -- Traditional Organizational Techniques -- Principal-Agent Relationship
Improved Organizational Design: Role of Financial Management Initiative(F. MI)Overall Organizational Development (OOD) -- An Assessment -- 5 Structural Adjustment: A Multifaceted Phenomenon -- I. Perspective on Developing Countries' Experience -- Managing Change -- Progress in Implementation -- Constraints of Institutional Reform -- II. Institutional and Systemic Adjustment to Market -- Design of Institution -- Expenditure Control Framework -- Central Bank -- Legislative Institutions -- Managing Transition
III. Institutional Implications of Regional ObligationsCoordination, Cooperation, and Harmonization -- Coordinating Expenditure Policies in GCC States -- Implications and Requirements of Expenditure Policy Coordination -- Experience of WAMU -- European Community (EC) Countries -- 6 Lending Programs, Guarantees, and Quasi-Fiscal Operations -- Nature and Extent of Government Lending -- Policy Approaches -- Budgeting Approaches -- Selected Issues -- Guarantees -- Quasi-Fiscal Accounts 155 -- 7 Servicing Public Debt: Management Aspects -- Public Debt Budgeting
Systemic FeaturesBudget Estimate Formulation -- Estimates and Outcomes -- Problem Areas -- Debt Management: Internal Accounting and Controls -- 8 Procurement, Contracting Out, and Expenditure Management -- Procurement Cycle -- Contract Management -- Issues -- 9 Performance Measurement and Evaluation -- Previous Trends -- Efficiency Measurement -- Efficiency Measurement Techniques -- Performance Indicators -- Issues in Applying Performance Indicators -- Evaluation -- Nature of Evaluation -- Design of Evaluation -- Other Aspects
Summary This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the expenditure process in public authorities from a management perspective. It covers the various aspects ranging from budget formulation to the courteous delivery of services to the public. In each, it considers the critical issues faced in industrial and developing countries and former centrally planned economies and discusses the efforts necessary to assure the public about the adequacy of public expenditure management machinery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-282)
Notes Also in Russian
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Subject Budget.
Expenditures, Public.
Budgets
budgets.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Budget
Expenditures, Public
Openbare financiën.
Kostenbeheersing.
Dépenses publiques -- Gestion.
Budget.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92044308
ISBN 9781455264827
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