Public Expenditure: Policy and Control

1979 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.W.R. Price
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
State Spending ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
And Control

The present government came to office with a commitment to cut state spending while reducing government intervention in the economy and extending the sphere of private choice through tax reductions. This philosophy, while of significance for the longerterm development of the public sector, is actually of limited use in explaining the 1979 public expenditure reductions. These stem from one of the recurrent crises of financial control which have afflicted public spending plans in the last decade and a half. The purpose of this article is to analyse the financial and economic background to the cuts, which, it is argued, would have called for programme adjustments whatever administration had been in office, though the type of reductions made may bear the imprint of different political philosophies.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE EFFICIENCY: A REVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Wong Sing Yun
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The Public ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Budgetary Allocation ◽  
Extended Review ◽  
Key Questions

Public spending is considered an important tool in a government’s continuous efforts to improve the delivery of the public sector and achieve growth objectives. The increasing demand for higher expenditures may create a tax burden and pressurised the budgetary allocation. This leads to the rising concern to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditure. A highly efficient public sector will likely be able to produce more outputs with less spending on inputs. Hence, the primary aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the growing literature on public expenditure efficiency. Against this background, an extended review will be discussed on the determinants that influence the efficiency of public spending. As such, the objective of this paper can be summarised to address the following key questions. Firstly, how to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditure? Secondly, what are the determinants that influence the efficiency of public spending? The answers to these questions will help solve the recent problem of budget constraints faced by policymakers.

THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND MONETARY POLICY IN THE FIRST CENTURY AD ROMAN EMPIRE

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oldroyd
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Financial Planning ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
First Century ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

Previous authors have argued that Roman coinage was used as an instrument of financial control rather than simply as a means for the state to make payments, without assessing the accounting implications. The article reviews the literary and epigraphic evidence of the public expenditure accounts surrounding the Roman monetary system in the first century AD. This area has been neglected by accounting historians. Although the scope of the accounts supports the proposition that they were used for financial control, the impetus for keeping those accounts originally came from the emperor's public expenditure commitments. This suggests that financial control may have been encouraged by the financial planning that arose out of the exigencies of funding public expenditure. In this way these two aspects of monetary policy can be reconciled.

scholarly journals The Public Employee Facing Unconstitutional Policies: Organization, State, Power, Stability and Social Control

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helder Gusso
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Control Agency ◽  
Public Employee ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Control

This article highlights the duty of the public employee to oppose any government policy that goes against constitutional principles and objectives. The defence of this position is made from an organizational analysis of the State. Theoretical contributions such as the understanding of State and Domination in M. Weber, Organization in D. Katz and R.L. Khan, and Control Agency in B.F. Skinner have been used. The analysis of contingencies that control the behavior of the public employee and the understanding of the notions of State and Organizations enable greater clarity about what constitutes the role of workers in the public sector. It also highlights the importance of existing mechanisms to reduce the imbalance in power relations between governors, servants and the population.

scholarly journals Análisis del crecimiento económico y desarrollo humano de las entidades federativas de México en el periodo 2005 – 2010

UVserva ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
León Felipe Beltrán Guerra ◽  
Jorge Luis Arellanez Hernández ◽  
Enrique Romero Pedraza
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Bienestar Psicologico

El gasto público en México se orienta a crear condiciones de desarrollo humano, salud y bienestar social por parte del Estado a través de su estructura federal. Se busca identificar cuál es el comportamiento de los indicadores de crecimiento y desarrollo de las entidades federativas en México en el periodo comprendido de 2005 a 2010. Con el análisis estadístico, se concluye que la relación entre el gasto público, destinado a rubros de salud, educación, desarrollo de infraestructura social, tiene una baja correlación con los índices de desarrollo en el país. Las variaciones no son significativas pero si las diferencias entre entidades federativas. El análisis de los indicadores mencionados, pretende mostrar que el gasto público no impacta claramente en las condiciones de salud, desarrollo y bienestar social de los mexicanos, elevando su calidad de vida.Palabras clave: Gasto público; Indice de Desarrollo Humano; bienestar psicológico; calidad de vida; condiciones de vida AbstractPublic spending in Mexico aims to create conditions of human development, heal­th and social well-being by the State through its federal structure. Our target is to identify what is the behavior of the indicators of grow­th and development in Mexico in the period of 2005-2010. After the statistical analysis, it is concluded that the relationship between pu­blic spending aimed at areas of health, educa­tion, social infrastructure development, has a low correlation with development index in the country. The variations in this index are not significant in the years analysed, but the diffe­rences between states does. The proposal aims at the public spending for being reflected sig­nificantly in the conditions of health, develop­ment and welbeing of Mexican people.Keywords: Public expenditure; Human develo­pment Index; Psychological well-being; Quali­ty of life; Life conditions 

Policies under Cameron: modernisation abandoned

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dorey
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
David Cameron ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor

Upon becoming Conservative leader in December 2005, David Cameron spoke passionately about the need for the Party to move on from Thatcherism. In so doing, he alluded to the need for a more compassionate and constructive Conservatism, one which was more sympathetic to the poor, and which also wanted to foster a partnership with professionals in the public sector. However, following the 2008 financial crash, the Conservative Party's policies became increasingly hostile both to welfare recipients and the public sector, whereupon the need to cut public spending was repeatedly invoked to justify major cuts in welfare provision and further marketisation or privatisation of the public sector. Regardless of Cameron's initially emollient rhetoric and allusions to One Nation Toryism, the trajectory of key Conservative policies since 2010 has remained firmly within a Thatcherite paradigm. Conservative modernisation has quietly been abandoned.

Portal for Employees in the Public Sector

2018 ◽  
pp. 342-362
Author(s):  
Ana Campos Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Shared Management ◽  
New Public

The need to reduce public spending has led Portugal to make administrative reforms. To that end, it called on the so-called e-government, using ICT as a mechanism to increase the quality and transparency of public services while lowering costs and operationalizing new public policies. Although administrative decentralisation is enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, only recently has it been prioritised as one of the great objectives of the administrative reforms of the state. To this end, the transfer of the necessary financial and human resources are foreseen. This will imply the implementation of human resources management strategies and mechanisms that avoid surplus or shortage of human resources, both in Central and Local Administration. Therefore, in this chapter, the creation of the “Portal for Employees in the Public Sector” is proposed as a shared management tool.

Management Information Systems in the Public Sector

2013 ◽  
pp. 157-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Heeks
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Management Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Monitoring And Control Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

Management information systems (MIS) are fundamental for public sector organizations seeking to support the work of managers. Yet they are often ignored in the rush to focus on ‘sexier’ applications. This chapter aims to redress the balance by providing a detailed analysis of public sector MIS. It first locates MIS within the broader management monitoring and control systems that they support. Understanding the broader systems and the relationship to public sector inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes is essential to understanding MIS. The chapter details the different types of reports that MIS produce, and uses this as the basis for an MIS model and a description of the decision-making benefits that computerized MIS can bring. Finally, the chapter describes generic public sector MIS that address internal government transactions, public administration/ regulation, and public service delivery. Real-world examples of all types are provided from the U.S., England, Africa, and Asia. <BR>

Portal for Employees in the Public Sector

2022 ◽  
pp. 659-679
Author(s):  
Ana Campos Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Shared Management ◽  
New Public

The need to reduce public spending has led Portugal to make administrative reforms. To that end, it called on the so-called e-government, using ICT as a mechanism to increase the quality and transparency of public services while lowering costs and operationalizing new public policies. Although administrative decentralisation is enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, only recently has it been prioritised as one of the great objectives of the administrative reforms of the state. To this end, the transfer of the necessary financial and human resources are foreseen. This will imply the implementation of human resources management strategies and mechanisms that avoid surplus or shortage of human resources, both in Central and Local Administration. Therefore, in this chapter, the creation of the “Portal for Employees in the Public Sector” is proposed as a shared management tool.

scholarly journals Legislative production and public spending in France

Public Choice ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Facchini ◽  
Elena Seghezza
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
The Public ◽  
Official Gazette ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Legislative Production ◽  
Laws And Regulations

AbstractThe aim of this article is to help explain the history of the public spending-to-GDP ratio in France by examining the production of laws and regulations. It empirically finds a positive and significant relationship between the number of pages in the Official Gazette of the French Republic and the development of the public expenditure-to-GDP ratio. We rely on the number of pages in the Official Gazette as a proxy for the cost of implementing laws and regulations. If unchecked, a proliferation of laws and regulations expands public spending. Over the period 1905–2015, a 10% increase in pages caused a 1.14% increase in the public expenditure-to-GDP ratio.

Models of Institutional Organization of Budgetary Control in Foreign Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Zhaklin M. SARKISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
State Government ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Control ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Budgetary Control ◽  
Institutional Organization

The article discusses some of the features, showing that experts distinguish the following models of institutional organization of budgetary control: parliamentary control, administrative control, judicial control. Parliamentary control in the field of Finance to produce to the Commission or parliamentary committees or audit bodies, for example, the chamber. Exercising budgetary control committees have certain features in different States as the order of the information and competence. Administrative and financial control in the public sectors the head of state, government and specialized bodies, in addition, ministries and agencies. Judicial financial control in the public sector carry out so-called judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, for example, the court of accounts in France, Italy, Spain etc.

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