OECD Journal on Budgeting
The OECD Journal on Budgeting is published three times per year. It draws on the best of the recent work of the OECD Committee of Senior Budget Officials (SBO), as well as special contributions from finance ministries, academics and experts in the field and makes it available to a wider community in an accessible format. The journal provides insight on leading-edge institutional arrangements, systems and instruments for the allocation and management of resources in the public sector.
Also available in: French
- 3 times a year
- ISSN: 16812336 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/16812336
Privatisation, public purpose and private service
The twentieth century culture of contracting out and the evolving law of diffused sovereignty
The 1992 book Reinventing Government, the template for the identically named Clinton-Gore initiative, identified 36 alternatives to “standard delivery service”. Surprisingly, the authors wrote, the federal government already relies on many of these alternatives. Similarly, the basic tools identified by the Reagan Commission on Privatisation – vouchers, sale of government assets, and contracting – were not new...
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