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Comparative Public Budgeting: A Global Perspective

Author(s): Charles E. Menifield, Department of Public and Non-Profit Administration, University of Memphis
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763780104
  • Paperback    392 pages      © 2011
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Comparative Public Budgeting and Finance is a collection of original chapters examining public budgeting issues, methods, and techniques in countries around the world. Each chapter explores the history of the budget system and how it fits within the political system in the country, as well as the legal foundation and any reforms that affect the budget system. A discussion of revenue and expenditure allocations is included in each section. 

Each chapter also examines topics such as: budget behavior and decision making, capital budgeting, analytical processes, budget processes, intergovernmental relations, budget reform, performance budgeting, and financial management. Each chapter concludes with a list of thought provoking questions, an appendix, end notes and a glossary which provides a point of departure for classroom discussion as well as individual student research on each country.

Key Features:

-- Compares the public budgeting systems of countries from around the world.
-- Each chapter looks at budget behavior and decision making, capital budgeting, analytical processes, budget processes, intergovernmental relations, budget reform, performance budgeting, and financial management.
-- Each chapter concludes with a list of thought provoking questions, an appendix, end notes and a glossary which provides a point of departure for classroom discussion as well as individual student research on each country.

 

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  Chapter  1  An Introduction to Comparative Budgeting
Part  I  Africa
  Chapter  2  Ghana’s Movement Toward Fiscal Decentralization
Part  II  Asia
  Chapter  3  Accountability Building through Budgetary Reform: China’s Experience
  Chapter  4  Budgeting and Financial Reform in Korea
  Chapter  5  Budgeting for Results: Enhancing the Budget Process in the Philippines through Public Expenditure Reforms
  Chapter  6  The Limits of Budget Reform in Taiwan
  Chapter  7  Public Budgeting Systems in Thailand
  Chapter  8  Budgeting in Viet Nam: Decentralized Decision-making in a Unitary State Budget Environment
Part  III  Europe
  Chapter  9  Budget Reform Process and Financial Management in Italy
  Chapter  10  Public Sector Budgeting in the UK: Devolution of Powers and Responsibilities
Part  IV  Middle East
  Chapter  11  Budgeting Under Resource Abundance and Hesitant Steps to Decentralized Capital Investment in Iraq
  Chapter  12  Budget Discipline and Undisciplined Politics and Finance: The Case of Jordan
  Chapter  13  Budget Making and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Pakistan
  Chapter  14  Budgetary Systems in Saudia Arabia: Reform Needed
  Chapter  15  Finance Reform and Performance-Based Budgeting in the United Arab Emirates
Part  V  North America
  Chapter  16  Review and Reallocation in the Canadian Federal Government’s Budgetary System
  Chapter  17  Decentralization, Budgets and the Challenge of Intergovernmental Coordination: Lessons Learned from Mexico
  Chapter  18  Federal Budgeting in the United States
Part  VI  South America
  Chapter  19  Budgeting in Brazil under the Law of Fiscal Responsibility
  Chapter  20  Learning from Others: Budgeting in the New Millenia
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Charles E. Menifield-Department of Public and Non-Profit Administration, University of Memphis

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