Government Financial Management : Issues and Country Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I-Issues -- 1: Fiscal Policy for Growth and Stability in Developing Countries: Selected Issues -- 2: Management of Public Money: Issues in Government Financial Management -- 3: Why the Deficit Persists as a Budget Problem: Role of Political Institutions -- 4: Role of Public Expenditure Management in Structural Adjustment Programs -- 5: Rolling Expenditure Plans: Australian Experience and Prognosis -- 6: Expenditure Controls: Institutional and Operational Issues -- 7: Government Accounting: Promise and Performance -- 8: Cash Management -- 9: Measuring Efficiency in Government: Techniques and Experience -- 10: Value for Money: Toward Improved Organizational Functioning -- 11: The Judicial Power of the Purse: How the Courts Interpret Budget Laws -- Part II-Country Studies -- 12: Results-Oriented Management: Australian Public Sector Financial Management, Accounting, and Budgeting Reform in the 1980s -- 13: The Canadian Experience -- 14: Budgetary Accounting in China -- 15: India: Developments in Government Accounting and Financial Management -- 16: Government Accounting in Poland -- 17: Government Accounting in Sweden -- 18: Turkish Government Accounting and Financial Management System -- 19: Government Accounting in the United Kingdom -- 20: Recent Developments in Accounting and Financial Management in the United States -- 21: Government Accounting and Financial Management in Latin American Countries.

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