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The performance of the capital budget has been a subject of debate between the legislative and executive arms of the … Nigerian government since 1999. Available statistics suggest that the annual budget has not been able to improve the lives of … Nigerians over the past several years because of the weak link between capital budget implementation and poverty reduction, as …
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This paper discusses the management of public expenditures in Indonesia in State Budget 2017. The data collected from …
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Fiscal pressures and sovereign debt concerns around the world are intensifying scrutiny of government finances. Even in Canada, where these pressures and concerns are less acute, federal and provincial fiscal controls could be better. Some Canadian governments still present budgets to their...
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The government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review was anything but comprehensive. The cuts to government spending were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the...
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reining it in. Budget consolidation efforts and public-sector reforms temporarily reversed the upward trend in the government … would seem to relate to the budget process and the lack of a medium-term expenditure policy, along with insufficient …
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Several features of Tanzania's budget system find their roots in the arrangements inherited from the United Kingdom …. These include a legal framework that emphasizes accountability' a cabinet of ministers with strong budget decision …-making powers' a parliament with very limited budget powers' and a similar external audit organization. In both countries, budget …
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used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone …
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Michael Greve's The Upside-Down Constitution is one of the most important works on constitutional federalism in years. It is the best exposition to date of the idea that the American Constitution establishes a federal system primarily devoted to promoting competition between state governments....
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This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017-2018 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and...
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In more than half of U.S. states over the past two decades, the implementation of merit aid programs has dramatically reduced net tuition expenses for college-bound students who attend in-state colleges. Although the intention of these programs was to improve access to enrollment for...
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