Public Expenditure Handbook : A Guide to Public Policy Issues in Developing Countries / Ke-young Chu, Richard Hemming.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Chu, Ke-young.

Contributor:

Hemming, Richard.

Series:

Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--Developing countries.

Government spending policy.

Developing countries--Appropriations and expenditures.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1991.

Language Note:

English

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.

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""

""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""

""Economic Analysis of Military Expenditure""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613850584

9781455241811

1455241814

9781455235643

1455235644

9781283538138

128353813X

9781455219421

1455219428