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01 Oct 2010
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Is New Public Management Really Dead?
Jouke de Vries, Pages: 1–5
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article, originally presented as a keynote speech at the June 2009 meeting of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials, explores the state of new public management from the perspective of current political theory and presents relevant ...
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24 Oct 2011
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Independent Fiscal Institutions: Developing Good Practices
George Kopits, Pages: 1–18
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article presents an overview of independent fiscal institutions in OECD member countries, outlining their principal common features as well as country-specific attributes and functions, and flags the challenges they face in the surveillance of ...
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28 Aug 2001
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Integrating Financial Management and Performance Management
Christopher Pollitt, Pages: 7–37
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The objective of this paper is to assess mechanisms to improve resource planning and allocation by integrating financial and budgetary management with performance management.
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24 Jan 2003
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Investing in private financial assets to address longer-term needs
Jón R. Blöndal, Pages: 105–117
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In preparation for the 2002 meeting of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials, an ad hoc Meeting on Investing in Private Financial Assets to Address Longer Term Needs was held in Paris on 4-5 April 2002. Eight countries participated in ...
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09 June 2004
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International Procurement Regimes and the Scope for the Inclusion of Environmental Factors in Public Procurement
Peter Kunzlik, Pages: 107–152
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Through adherence to regional trade agreements, membership in common market areas, and other international treaties, OECD member country governments have agreed to subject their public procurement procedures to a certain degree of international ...
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25 Sep 2003
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Improving Government Decision-making Practices for Risk Management
Frédéric Bouder, Elodie Beth, Pages: 25–42
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Conventional risks, such as environmental degradation, tend to take on new dimensions due to increasingly extreme weather conditions, growing geographical concentration of populations and wealth, etc. Emerging issues, such as new diseases ...
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07 July 2005
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Is There an Optimum Legal Framework for the Budget System?
OECD, Pages: 125–154
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Public finance specialists and constitutional theorists are very reluctant to establish legal norms for budget systems. International organisations have published guidelines for desirable features of budgetary transparency. Except for external audit ...
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13 July 2005
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Introductory Speech for the Meeting of Senior Budget Officials of Central and Eastern European Countries
Gerrit Zalm, Pages: 99–102
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to make some opening remarks on this conference. Budget policy is a recurring theme in my career. In 1975 I started my career at the Ministry of Finance in the Budget ...
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18 Oct 2004
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Issues in Accrual Budgeting
Jón R. Blöndal, Pages: 103–119
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
There would appear to be a growing consensus among OECD member countries concerning the merits of adopting accrual accounting in the public sector. Nearly one-third of member countries have adopted full accrual accounting and a number of other ...
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29 May 2006
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Introducing Financial Management Information Systems in Developing Countries
Jack Diamond, Pokar Khemani, Pages: 97–132
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
In the past decade, developing countries have been encouraged to reform their public expenditure management systems and have increasingly embarked on major projects to computerise their government operations. Most popular among these have been ...
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28 Sep 2006
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Intergovernmental Transfers and Decentralised Public Spending
Daniel Bergvall, Claire Charbit, Dirk-Jan Kraan, Olaf Merk, Pages: 111–158
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Intergovernmental grants are used in many countries to finance subnational spending and to implement national policies. However, the governance of grants is complex, and practices vary widely across OECD countries. The aim of this article is to ...
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05 Nov 2007
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Integrating Current and Development Budgets: A Four-Dimensional Process
David Webber, Pages: 93–107
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
For most developing and transition countries, the integration of current and capital (or "development") budgets is a major step towards improved budget management and more effective public finance institutions. Moving to a unified budget, however ...
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04 July 2007
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Implementing OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART): Meeting the Challenges of Integrating Budget and Performance
John B. Gilmour, Pages: 1–40
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article examines the PART initiative of the United States Office of Management and Budget from a practical standpoint: how federal agencies have dealt with the requirements of PART and what strategies they have employed to be successful. The ...
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04 July 2007
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Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities
Teresa Curristine, Zsuzsanna Lonti, Isabelle Joumard, Pages: 1–41
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process ("performance budgeting").
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01 Apr 2009
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Impact of budget support on accountabilities at the local level in Indonesia
Philippa Venning, Pages: 1–29
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
A thorough analysis of existing governance and accountability structures in a decentralised country is necessary before deciding to deliver development assistance directly to the regional level. This article examines the mechanism of donor-provided ...
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13 Apr 2010
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Improving Competition in Real Estate Transactions
OECD, Pages: 75–125
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The OECD Competition Committee debated improving competition in real estate transactions in February 2007. Real estate transactions are subject to a variety of potential limitation of competition that can have significant effects on ordinary ...
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16 Jan 2004
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Issues for Trade and Competition in the Global Context
OECD, Pages: 7–55
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The complex relationship between trade policy and competition policy has been under study in the OECD for many years. In response to the Doha Declaration by WTO Ministers (November 2001), the OECD intensified its efforts, focussing on the topics ...
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17 Jan 2011
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Intergenerational Social Mobility in OECD Countries
Orsetta Causa, Åsa Johansson, Pages: 1–44
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OECD Journal: Economic Studies
This paper assesses recent patterns of intergenerational social mobility across OECD countries and examines the role that public policies can play. It shows that the relationship between parental or socio-economic background and offspring ...
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04 Jan 2013
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ICT investments and productivity: Measuring the contribution of ICTS to growth
Vincenzo Spiezia, Pages: 199–211
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OECD Journal: Economic Studies
This study uses an econometric approach to estimate the contribution of three types of ICT investments (computer, software and communication) in 26 industries (the whole business sector) in 18 OECD countries over 1995-2007, based on the EU KLEMS ...
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04 Jan 2013
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Interest-rate-growth differentials and government debt dynamics
David Turner, Francesca Spinelli, Pages: 103–122
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OECD Journal: Economic Studies
The differential between the interest rate paid to service government debt and the growth rate of the economy is a key concept in assessing fiscal sustanability. Among OECD economies,this differential was unusually low for much of the last decade ...
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