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09 Dec 2010
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Mandates: Fiscal Accountability Issues
Paul L. Posner, Pages: 1–22
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
National leaders under pressure are often tempted to consider shifting costs to other levels of government and to satisfy new demands for public services by passing mandates and costs to other levels of governments to finance new programmes. These ...
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07 Dec 2005
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Market-type Mechanisms and the Provision of Public Services
Jón R. Blöndal, Pages: 79–106
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Market-type mechanisms are defined as "encompassing all arrangements where at least one significant characteristic of markets is present." In the area of service provision, the prime instruments include outsourcing (contracting out), publicprivate ...
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24 Jan 2003
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Modern financial management practices
Ian Ball, Pages: 49–76
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The paper highlights two incentive regimes which have been used by governments to improve their financial management systems: the capital charge regime to improve asset management and the interest rate regime to improve cash management...
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18 Feb 2005
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Managing the Public's Money: From Outputs to Outcomes – and Beyond
David Webber, Pages: 101–121
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
The search for better ways of budgeting and managing public finances is a continuous process. This may be because, like in many other areas of economics, there are always some who see a need or an opportunity to improve on existing approaches. It ...
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30 May 2007
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Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds
Richard Allen, Dimitar Radev, Pages: 7–36
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
This article addresses issues relating to the establishment and financial management of extrabudgetary funds (EBFs), a large group of government entities and accounts. The article develops a typology of EBFs and argues that they are frequently ...
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02 Jan 2007
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Malawi: Lessons Learnt from First Reforms Lead to New Approach
Chauncy Simwaka, Pages: 1–22
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Malawi provides valuable experience on the advantages of a holistic approach when attempting reforms, and on how to manage longer reform programmes. Since 1995, the budget process has been based on the principles of the Medium-term Expenditure ...
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02 Jan 2007
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Mozambique: Better Budget Machinery: First Focus of Reforms
José Sulemane, Pages: 1–13
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OECD Journal on Budgeting
Mozambique is undergoing a number of major reforms in the public sector including reform of the public finance management system. This article describes the environment before the budget reforms, highlighting the weaknesses in budget planning and ...
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16 June 2004
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English
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Media Mergers: Synthesis by the Secretariat
OECD, Pages: 73–78
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
Reviewing media mergers may be more complicated than reviewing other mergers because of the huge variety of possible media content and the two-sided market aspect of many media, i.e. those earning advertising revenue. A wide variety of content means ...
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16 June 2004
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Media Mergers: Background Note
Gary Hewitt, Pages: 79–146
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The question of who owns our newspapers, television and radio is vital to democracy. The information and opinion we draw on must reflect a range of different voices and views if we are to be able to understand and debate the issues of the day. The ...
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16 June 2004
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Media Mergers: Summary of the Discussion
OECD, Pages: 147–170
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The Chairman made three general opening points: market definition is an important issue in most jurisdictions, and seems to be fairly similar across countries; behavioural remedies are heavily used and are highly case specific; and competition ...
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16 Nov 2005
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Merger Remedies
OECD, Pages: 67–131
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
The following principles should guide competition authorities when devising remedies in merger cases: i) remedies are to be considered only if a threat to competition has been identified; ii) remedies should be the least restrictive means to ...
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11 Feb 2009
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English
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Monitoring Review of Korea
OECD, Pages: 107–137
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OECD Journal: Competition Law and Policy
This report reviews the achievements of the Korean 3-Year Market Reform Road Map. This assessment is carried out in light of the OECD’s previous recommendations to shift KFTC priorities and resources toward core competition problems related to ...
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17 Jan 2011
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English
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Migration and labour market outcomes in OECD countries
Sébastien Jean, Orsetta Causa, Miguel Jimenez, Isabelle Wanner, Pages: 1–34
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OECD Journal: Economic Studies
Immigration pressures are increasing in most OECD countries. This article investigates the consequences of immigration for natives’ labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants’ integration in the host country labour market ...
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14 Jan 2002
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Measuring productivity
Dirk Pilat, Paul Schreyer, Pages: 127–170
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OECD Economic Studies
This paper discusses the main measurement issues in calculating productivity indicators, and provides guidance to researchers and statisticians in addressing these difficulties. It draws on the OECD Productivity Manual and on recent OECD work on ...
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10 Dec 2003
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Measures of Restrictions on Inward Foreign Direct Investment for OECD Countries
Stephen S. Golub, Pages: 85–116
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OECD Economic Studies
This paper provides new measures of restrictions on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for OECD countries. Several different types of restrictions are considered: limitations on foreign ownership, screening or notification procedures, and ...
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23 Mar 2012
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Managing Crises without Government Guarantees: How Do We Get There?
Christine M. Cumming, Pages: 9–19
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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends
Experience illustrates that, for successful crisis management, there is no substitute for early intervention and, if possible, a private sector solution in preserving value in the firm and limiting externalities. Early intervention, in turn, calls ...
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22 Sep 2009
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Mali: Beyond Cotton? Searching for "Green Gold"
Yoshiko Matsumoto-Izadifar, Pages: 33–51
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OECD Journal: General Papers
The Malian economy faces the challenge of reducing its over-dependence on cotton and gold. In order to do so, a search for "green gold" — commercial agriculture beyond cotton — is underway. Mali has started to exploit export market opportunities for ...
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25 May 2011
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Mapping innovative finance for development mechanisms
Elisabeth Sandor, Pages: 77–97
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OECD Journal: General Papers
This article aims to offer an OECD benchmark for regular monitoring and assessment of innovative financing for development (IFD), focusing on the relation of IFD with official development assistance (ODA) and aid effectiveness. This article looks at ...
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25 May 2011
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Making the most of the international aid system
Emily Bosch, Pages: 27–36
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OECD Journal: General Papers
This article outlines how the global development set-up looks today. The picture is of a complex "ecosystem", with many different types of organisations delivering assistance in a variety of different forms. This complexity presents both ...
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24 Mar 2009
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Market Openness, Trade Liberalisation and Innovation Capacity in the Finnish Telecom Equipment Industry
Caroline Lesser, Pages: 65–107
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OECD Journal: General Papers
This case study examines how recent trade and investment patterns (including "trade in tasks" resulting from supply chain fragmentation) and Finnish and global policies that promote market openness and free trade have affected the innovation process ...
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