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22 Aug 2011
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Country notes
OECD, Pages: 69–213
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Each country note has the following structure: Section 1 gives a brief overview of the main economic developments in recent years in the relevant country including real GDP, fiscal balance and gross debt figures. This presentation is mainly based on ...
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28 May 2010
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Crisis Budgeting
Allen Schick, Pages: 1–14
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Budgeting is fundamentally altered, if only temporarily, by pressures that overwhelm established policies and practices. This article discusses conventional and non-conventional responses to crisis, and how crisis impacts on the budget process. Just ...
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05 Mar 2002
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Can National Legislatures Regain an Effective Voice in Budget Policy?
Allen Schick, Pages: 15–42
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Two contemporary developments are buffeting legislative work on the budget. One is the drive to discipline public finance by constraining the fiscal aggregates; the other is the effort to enlarge the legislature’s role in revenue and spending ...
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23 May 2003
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Controlling public expenditure: The theory of expenditure limitation
Aaron Wildavsky, Pages: 27–47
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
What don’t I mean by expenditure limitation? This paper is not about why governments should chose to limit spending. If governments wish to increase spending, that is obviously their prerogative. Moreover, they are, on the evidence, very good at it ...
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17 Nov 2003
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Countering Uncertainty in Budget Forecasts
Dan Crippen, Pages: 139–151
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Federal budget procedures in the United States require forecasts and projections over several distinct periods of time: short term (18-24 months ahead), medium term (both 5- and 10-year horizons), and long term (as much as 75 years in the future ...
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11 Dec 2003
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Can Public Sector Organisations Learn?
Maria Barrados, John Mayne, Pages: 87–103
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on the importance of managing information in organisations, as well as the challenges for organisations to make use of and adapt from it. Organisationsare expected to value information, to be ...
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07 July 2005
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Comparative Law, Constitutions, Politics and Budget Systems.
OECD, Pages: 23–57
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This part aims to identify reasons for the wide differences in budget system laws in advanced countries. Comparative research on budget system laws is virtually non-existent. The economics and public finance literature provides little explanation as ...
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07 July 2005
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Comparisons of OECD Country Legal Frameworks for Budget Systems
OECD, Pages: 59–123
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This chapter compares the extent to which law is used to specify budget players and processes, with a particular focus on 13 OECD countries. Although budget system laws serve differing purposes, new budget-related laws are often adopted to introduce ...
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07 July 2005
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Case Studies of Selected OECD Countries
OECD, Pages: 155–479
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Canada has a Westminster model of government and therefore does not highlight the legal basis for annual budget processes. A combination of laws, regulations and conventions govern budget preparation, adoption and budget reporting to Parliament ...
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19 Mar 2007
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Competitiveness and Modernisation of Public Finances: Selecting an Action Scenario in Hungary Following EU Accession
Árpád Kovács, Pages: 1–24
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The most important strategic tasks of Hungarian economic policy are to complete the process of European integration, to build up the appropriate institutional and social capacities and to harmonise real and nominal convergence. This article ...
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04 July 2007
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Comparing Budget and Accounting Measures of the Federal Government's Fiscal Condition
OECD, Pages: 1–25
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This paper by the Congressional Budget Office examines two reports on fiscal policy in the United States: the budget and the government’s financial statements. The reports differ in concept and scope. Neither provides all of the relevant information ...
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04 July 2007
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Civil Service Reform in China
John P. Burns, Pages: 1–25
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The Chinese government has undertaken extensive reforms to its civil service system over the past ten years. The capacity of the civil service has improved, but perhaps due to reasons other than civil service reform. This article reviews the ...
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12 Apr 2010
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Country Review: El Salvador
John Clark, Pages: 173–203
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD has been active in promoting competition policy among countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and formed a partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank to further this aim. The principal feature of this partnership has been the ...
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12 Apr 2010
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Construction Industry
OECD, Pages: 153–171
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD Competition Committee debated issues related to the Construction Industry in June 2008. This roundtable addressed the special characteristics of the construction industry as they relate to competition law and policy. Construction is a ...
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12 Apr 2010
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Competition in Bidding Markets
OECD, Pages: 69–151
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD Competition Committee debated competition in bidding markets in October 2006. Competition authorities become interested in auctions by a number of routes. In competition advocacy, they may advise other parts of government on how to design ...
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12 Apr 2010
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Concessions
OECD, Pages: 7–67
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD Competition Committee debated concessions in February 2006. Governments have long been engaged in providing goods or services to their citizens that could, in some form, be provided by the private sector. The trend over the past few ...
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13 Apr 2010
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Country Review: Chinese Taipei
OECD, Pages: 127–165
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
This report, prepared by the Secretariat of the OECD was the basis for a peer review examination of Chinese Taipei at the OECD’s Global Forum on Competition on 9 February, 2006. Competition law in Chinese Taipei has been an important element of the ...
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22 June 2011
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Country review of Argentina
OECD, Pages: 167–205
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The Inter-American Development Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development co-operate in competition law and policy to promote increased economic growth, employment and economic efficiency and a higher average standard of ...
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22 June 2011
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Competition and regulation in retail banking
OECD, Pages: 101–165
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The Competition Committee debated retail banking in October 2006. Competition can improve the functioning of the retail banking sector without harming prudential regulation. The efficient functioning of the sector is important for economic ...
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22 June 2011
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Competition and efficient usage of payment cards
OECD, Pages: 7–99
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD Competition Committee debated competition and efficient usage of payment cards in June 2006. In recent years, debit and credit cards have become increasingly common as retail payment mechanisms and have increasingly displaced checks and ...
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