The new public finance : responding to global challenges

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conceição, Pedro, Contributor.

Kaul, Inge, Contributor.

Conceiðcäao, Pedro., Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance, Public--International cooperation.

Finance, Public.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 664 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This publication presents a systematic account of how public finance has responded to the growing importance of the many global challenges. The book documents a refurbishment of governments public-finance toolkit, with greater reliance on international finance and insurance markets for risk management.

Contents:

The new national public finance: taking the outside world into account

Blending external and domestic policy demands: the rise of the intermediary state / Inge Kaul

Making policy under efficiency pressures: globalization, public spending, and social welfare / Vito Tanzi

Internalizing cross-border spillovers: policy options for addressing long-term fiscal challenges / Peter S. Heller

Managing risks to national economies: the role of macro markets / Robert J. Shiller

Combining fiscal sovereignty and coordination: national taxation in a globalizing world / Peggy B. Musgrave

Recognizing the limits to cooperation behind national borders: financing the control of transnational terrorism / Todd Sandler

The new international public finance: relying on public-private cooperation and competition

Exploring the policy space between markets and states: global public-private partnerships / Inge Kaul

Accomodating new actors and new purposes in international cooperation: the growing diversification of financing mechanisms / Pedro Conceição

Making the right money available at the right time for international cooperation: new financing technologies / Pedro Conceição, Hari Rajan, and Rajiv Shah

Taking self-interest into account: a public choice analysis of international cooperation / Philip Jones

The new international public finance: investing in global public goods provision abroad

Identifying high-return investments: a methodology for assessing when international cooperation pays- and for whom / Pedro Conceição, Ronald U. Mendoza

Making international cooperation pay: financing as a strategic incentive / Scott Barrett

Compensating countries for the provision of global public services: the tool of incremental costs / Kenneth King

Creating new markets: the Chicago Climate Exchange / Richard L. Sandor

Using markets more effectively: developing country access to commodity futures markets / C. Wyn Morgan

Assessing contractual and statutory approaches: policy proposals for restructuring unsustainable sovereign debt / Barry Eichengreen

Placing the emphasis on regulation: lessons from public finance in the European Union / Brigid Laffan

The new international public finance: enhancing aid efficiency

Using aid instruments more coherently: grants and loans / Paul Collier

Rectifying capital market imperfections: the continuing rationales for multilateral lending / Yilmaz Akyüz

Pulling not pushing reforms: delivering aid through challenge grants / Steven Radelet

Overcoming coordination and attribution problems: meeting the challenge of underfunded regionalism / Nancy Birdsall

Reducing the costs of holding reserves: a new perspective on special drawing rights / Jacques J. Polak and Peter B. Clark

Creating incentives for private sector involvement in poverty reduction: purchase commitments for agricultural innovation / Michael Kremer and Alix Peterson Zwane

Mitigating the risks of investing in developing countries: currency-related guarantee instruments for infrastructure projects / Stephany Griffith-Jones and Ana Teresa Fuzzo de Lima.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

65458003