Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management

The government budget should be the financial mirror of a well-informed public's choices, and careful public expenditure management is at the core of a well-functioning state. However, most people view budgeting as the epitome of eye-glazing subjects, the core concepts are rarely explained in a way that is understandable to the non-specialist, and they're too often presented without adequate consideration of a country's governance and institutional capacity. Government Budgeting...
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The government budget should be the financial mirror of a well-informed public's choices, and careful public expenditure management is at the core of a well-functioning state. However, most people view budgeting as the epitome of eye-glazing subjects, the core concepts are rarely explained in a way that is understandable to the non-specialist, and they're too often presented without adequate consideration of a country's governance and institutional capacity. Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management redresses both of these failings and does so in comparative international perspective. Distilling the lessons of good and bad experience with budgeting reforms in countries at different levels of income and administrative capacity, each chapter gradually progresses from the basic principles to the more technical aspects and then on to implementation issues, using concrete examples and illustrations from various countries.