Public expenditure handbook : a guide to public expenditure policy issues in developing countries / edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Government Expenditure Analysis Division, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, 1991.
- Copyright Date
- ©1991
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 178 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Chu, Ke-young, 1941-, Hemming, Richard, and International Monetary Fund
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Introduction""; ""Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Considerations""; ""Positive and Normative Issues ""; ""Productive and Unproductive Expenditure""; ""Overview of the Handbook""; ""Framework for Public Expenditure Analysis""; ""I. Public Expenditure and Sustainable Fiscal Policy""; ""Paying for Public Expenditure""; ""Public Debt""; ""II. Public Expenditure, Stabilization, and Structural Adjustment""; ""Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Policies""; ""Public Expenditure, Inflation and the Balance of Payments"", ""Public Expenditure and Growth""""Implications for Expenditure Policy""; ""III. Public Expenditure and Resource Allocation""; ""The Optimality of Competitive Markets""; ""Market Failure""; ""Toward Allocative Efficiency""; ""Distributional Objectives""; ""Public Expenditure Growth""; ""Analyzing Public Expenditure""; ""IV. Public Expenditure Productivity""; ""Defining Unproductive Expenditure""; ""Identifying Unproductive Expenditure""; ""V. Public Expenditure Measurement""; ""The Level of Government""; ""Off-Budget Expenditure""; ""Other Off-Budget Activities""; ""Tax Expenditures"", ""Cost Recovery""""The Impact of Transfers""; ""Public Expenditure and Public Sector Output""; ""Analysis of Major Expenditure Categories""; ""VI. Public Sector Employment""; ""Employment Demand in the Public Sector""; ""Impact on the Private Sector""; ""Excess Public Sector Employment""; ""Reducing Public Sector Employment""; ""VII. Public Sector Pay""; ""Public Sector Wage and Salary Determination""; ""Pay Disequilibria in the Public Sector""; ""Fringe Benefits""; ""Wage and Salary Restraint""; ""Country Illustrations""; ""VIII. Operations and Maintenance""; ""Causes of the Problem"", ""Consequences of Inadequate O&M Outlays""""Issues in the Formulation of an O&M Strategy""; ""A Strategy for Action on O&M Expenditure""; ""Country Illustration""; ""IX. Price Subsidies""; ""Arguments for Subsidies""; ""The Impact of Subsidies""; ""Food Subsidies""; ""Subsidies on Energy Products""; ""Fertilizer Subsidies""; ""Country Illustration""; ""X. Interest Payments""; ""Interest Payments, Inflation, and the Fiscal Deficit: An Example""; ""Three Concepts of the Fiscal Deficit""; ""Debt and Interest Rates""; ""Interest Payments and Public Debt Dynamics""; ""Sustainability"", and ""Country Illustration""""XI. Transfers to Public Enterprises""; ""The Budgetary Impact of Public Enterprise Operations""; ""Public Enterprise Performance and Problems""; ""Public Enterprise Reform""; ""Country Illustration""; ""XII. Transfers to Local Governments""; ""Decentralization of Government Expenditures""; ""National Public Goods and Inter-Regional Externalities""; ""Centralized Tax Collection and Deficit Financing""; ""Intergovernmental Grants""; ""Country Illustration""; ""XIII. Military Expenditure""; ""The Pattern of Military Expenditure""; ""Determinants of Military Spending""
- Summary
- This handbook, edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming, offers guidance to officials formulating public policy recommendations, so that the aggregate level of public spending conforms with the economy's overall resource capacity. The handbook looks at the impact of public spending on the efficiency of resource use and explores the basis for distinguishing between productive and unproductive spending.
- Subject(s)
- Government spending policy—Developing countries
- Dépenses publiques—Politique gouvernementale—Pays en voie de développement
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS—Public Finance
- Expenditures, Public
- Government spending policy
- Openbare financiën
- Developing countries—Appropriations and expenditures
- Países subdesarrollados—Ingresos y gastos
- Pays en voie de développement—Crédits budgétaires et dépenses
- Developing countries
- ISBN
- 9781455219421 (electronic bk.)
1455219428 (electronic bk.)
1557752222
9781557752222
1455241814
9781455241811
1455235644
9781455235643
128353813X
9781283538138
9786613850584
6613850586 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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