This paper investigates budgetary rules for an economy characterized by inflation and volatile relative prices. We view the budgetary process as a limited contingencies contract between the treasury and the ministers. The budgetary process allows a minister, whose realized real budget falls...

Zimbabwe is one of the least fiscally performing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with some fiscal outcomes for years 2009 to 2019 being unsatisfactory. The IMF 2020 Article IV consultation report on Zimbabwe suggested that fiscal and monetary slippages experienced in 2018 and 2019 resulted in...

International development institutions frequently prescribe improving public financial management (PFM) as part of the response to lowering corruption levels in low- and middle-income countries. But to date, there has been little cross-country analysis on whether better PFM is associated with...

Well-known finances in Iraq trusted oil revenues to finance elements of spending accounting for a huge proportion of among (94-97%) of the whole public sales predicted, posing a danger to the overall Iraqi financial system to hyperlink oil costs, foreign currency and its impact by using making...

A primary requirement for managing water effectively and sustainably is an accounting framework that registers the water that is available for use (supply) and the water that is being used (demand). A common accounting analogy is a water budget, or a water account. This note focuses on the water...

Conventional wisdom suggests budget maneuvers threaten long-term structural balance because they transfer resources from the future to the present by non-transparent means. However, the incidence of maneuver use remains poorly understood due to their difficulty to observe. The Volcker...

Die Corona-Pandemie belastet den Haushalt des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen auch im kommenden Jahr. Das Ausrufen einer Notsituation für 2022 und damit das Aussetzen des regulären Verbots einer Nettoneuverschuldung ist nachvollziehbar und kann die wirtschaftliche Erholung stützen.

This festschrift celebrates the extensive contribution John Wanna has made to the research and practice of politics, policy and public administration. It includes both personal acknowledgements of his work and substantial essays on the issues that he focused most closely upon during his academic...