Value for Money : Budget and Financial Management Reform in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Australia.

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. How political institutions, history and experience affect government budgeting processes and ways of achieving 'value for money' -- 2. Government budgeting and the quest for value-for-money outcomes in Australia -- 3. Projecting long-term fiscal outcomes -- 4. Budget reform in China: Progress and prospects in the Xi Jinping era -- 5. Public budgeting system in Taiwan: Does it lead to better value for money? -- 6. Making 'accountability for results' really work? -- 7. Adoption or implementation? Performance measurement in the City of Guangzhou's Department of Education -- 8. Public financial management and the campaign against extravagant position-related consumption in China -- 9. Accountability reform, parliamentary oversight and the role of performance audit in Australia -- 10. The development of performance auditing in Taiwan -- 11. Budgeting and financial management of public infrastructure: The experience of Taiwan -- 12. Municipal financial strategy responses to fiscal austerity: The case of Taiwan -- 13. Australia's employment services, 1998-2012: Using performance monitoring and evaluation to improve value for money -- 14. Case study of the role of third-party evaluators in performance-based budgeting reform at the local government level in China -- 15. Education outlay, fiscal transfers and interregional funding equity: A county-level analysis of education finance in China -- 17. Timely help or Icing the Cake? Revisiting the Effect of Public Subsidies on Private R&amp -- D Investment in Taiwan -- 18. 'Value for money' lessons and challenges.

The chapters in this book explore budgeting and financial management in three very different jurisdictions: Australia, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). These activist and at times innovative countries are keen to analyse and reflect upon each other's policy achievements and patterns of public provision.

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