scholarly journals The Relationship between Public Expenditure and Bureaucratic Quality: The Case of Eurasian Economies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gökhan Dökmen ◽  
Özcan Sezer
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Publicly Provided Goods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Political Variables

One of the controversial issues among researchers in the field of public finance is estimating the determinants of public expenditures. It’s argued that public expenditure is determined by economic as well as demographic, social and political variables. One of the important element of political variables is bureaucracy. If bureaucracy, as one of the main actors of political decision making process, works in quality, effectiveness and efficiency would occur in publicly provided goods and services. In parallel with the good quality of bureaucracy, the size of state would become smaller. The purpose of this study is to test empirically between efficient bureaucracy and public expenditure, using dynamic panel data analysis of 6 Eurasian Economic Community countries from 1998 to 2011. This study finds evidence that existence of bureaucratic quality reduces the public expenditures.

scholarly journals THE FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS OF A COUNTRY

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Bohdan MALYNIAK
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Social System ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Functional Purpose

Introduction. The functions of public expenditures reveal their intended purpose in the regulation of various processes and explain their role in the attainment of specific goals. Scientific literature provides extensive insights into definitions of budget functions in market democracies, but the functional purpose of public expenditures is covered only fragmentarily. The purpose of the article is to present a scientific substantiation for the system of public expenditure functions in the market democracies. Results. Based on the analysis of public expenditure functions, we believe that it would be feasible to substantiate the functions separately for each of the two main spheres directly affected by public expenditures, namely public management and the economic and social system of the country. In the public management sphere, public expenditures perform the functions of control and planning (programming). The essence of the planning function consists in using public expenditures to create conditions and provide necessary incentives for rational performance-based planning of the activities carried out by public authorities, as well as for attainment of target performance indicators by applying the results-oriented budgeting method. The function of control is preconditioned by the specifics of public management system functioning in a democratic society, which consists in assuring that the society has control over activities of public authorities. The influence of public expenditures on the national economy and its social system occurs through functions of allocation, redistribution and stimulation. The function of allocation consists in providing the population with goods and services that cannot be supplied by the market economy in sufficient volumes. The essence of the redistribution function consists in using public expenditures with the aim of decreasing income inequality among members of the society, regional development of territories or solving other tasks. The public expenditure function of stimulation aims to stimulate certain directions of economic activity by means of changing the volumes, components or structure of public expenditures through different mechanisms of their realization. Conclusions. In result of performing a theoretical study of the functional purpose of the budget in a market economy and a critical analysis of scientific postulates allow us to substantiate the feasibility of identifying the following functions of public expenditures: planning (programming), control, allocation, redistribution, and stimula tion.

Keeping an eye on the global education industry A conversation with Anna Hogan

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
University Researcher ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Online Schools

Kappan’s editor talks with Queensland University researcher Anna Hogan about the rapid growth of commercial activity in Australia’s schools and in school systems around the world. Private businesses have always sold textbooks, classroom tools, and other goods and services to public schools, and many teachers are happy to purchase and use them, notes Hogan. However, the biggest corporations in the education market — such as Pearson and Google — have grown so large, and are so eager to promote online schools and automated instruction, that teachers have reason to be concerned about the future of their profession, and the public has reason to worry that the quality of their schools will decline.

The Public Procurement and the Quality of Services: The Case of Moscow Hospitals

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Margarita  V. Kravtsova
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive Effect

The work is devoted to the search for answers to the question: “Are there any differences in the public procurement of customers who provide services of different quality?”. The article identifies the stages of the hospital procurement process in the contract system and highlights the main customer strategies used in the auction. The results of an independent quality assessment are examined and comparative hospital characteristics with low and high quality rating are conducted. The hospital needs according to the types of purchases and their annual volumes of contracts are analyzed. The advantages of competitive procedures are determined and the key factors affecting the level of competition with possible risks of unreliable execution of contracts are identified. The empirical study is based on the database which includes 5390 contracts of 2 hospitals in Moscow for years of 2011–2017. Using the methods of econometric analysis, in particular, the method of least squares and the difference in the average, the hypothesis is tested the high competition has a positive effect on the quality of medical services. The constructed regression models show that the customer providing high quality services has low competition and small rebates at the auction. At the same time there are more contract terms, delays in the supply of goods and services as compared with the customer providing low quality services. Thus it was found that the underestimation of competition at the auction indicates the desire of the hospital to guarantee a higher quality of medical services to patients while as aggressive bids of participants lead to the supply of poor purchases. The results of the study may be useful for the competent authorities in the development of legal acts for the participants of the contract system in the field of health procurement.

Taxation Trap in Development of Entrepreneurship in Russia

2012 ◽  
pp. 132-139
Author(s):  
A. Zhuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
National Economic ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
Tax Payments ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Taxation System

The paper considers the problem of improving the quality of taxation institution in Russia using institutional economic theory research tools. The taxation institution analysis reveals the institutional trap in its structure which distorts national taxation system functioning and leads to complete abandonment of tax payments by national economic agents. On the basis of the analysis of tax revenues and directions and quality of public expenditure the author grounds the necessity of modernization of the national system of public needs satisfaction in the direction of the actual public goods and services production.

Features of the Personnel Policy of an Public Operating Company of Housing and Communal Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Пешкова ◽  
O. Peshkova ◽  
Замуравкин ◽  
P. Zamuravkin
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
Management Company ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Company Housing ◽  
Operating Company

Increasing requirements for housing and communal services, its development and improvement are an important factor in improving the quality of people’s lives. This makes it necessary to significantly change the principles of the personnel policy in public institutions. Only then will they be able to improve the quality of goods and services provided to the population, and as a result, to achieve reduce social tension in society. The purpose of research — to learn the basics of formation of personnel policy in the public management company housing and communal services on the example of a particular organization and to formulate recommendations for its improvement. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the developed principles of human resources policy are adapted to the particular area — management of housing and communal services. The proposed set of measures can be recommended for use in the Russian organizations for the management of housing and communal services because the situation can be regarded as typical for this sector of the Russian economy.

Local Government Budgets Stressed by Population Decline? – An Analysis of Residual Costs for the Local Communities of Styria in Austria

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Lais ◽  
Marianne Penker
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Natural Monopoly ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cost Curves

This article looks into the effects of population decline on local public expenditure. It starts with a theoretical explanation of so-called residual costs, i.e. cost curves of shrinking communities lying above those of growing. Data at the community level of the state Styria (Austria) on expenditure categories which have natural monopoly characteristics from 1997-2007 provides empirical support that expenditure per capita grew significantly stronger in shrinking communities than in growing communities. These results provide evidence that at least some of the public expenditures cannot be adjusted to the population decline in the medium term. Keywords: residual costs • local public expenditure • population decline • infrastructure • Austria • fiscal federalism

scholarly journals Public Expenditures Priorities between Human Development Requirements and Funding Constraints

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1224-1235
Author(s):  
Dr. Dhiaa Hussein Saud ◽  
Dr. Mazen Dawood Salman ◽  
Dr. Amro Hisham Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Oil Markets ◽  
Public Money

Interest in the issue of public Expenditures (spending) priorities increases in times of financial and economic crisis, when restrictions on government funding grow, and financial markets stumble in providing financing channels with the necessary liquidity, as well as when paying attention to increasing the efficiency and productivity of public spending, by reducing the waste of public money and pursuing its allocation between different economic sectors to achieve the public benefit as much as possible and at the lowest possible cost. Among the discussions being raised in this regard is where the priority lies in spending is on sectors that support human development such as (education, health and public services), or the priority of spending on other sectors (which may hinder human development and delay the development of states and civil societies) such as military sectors, armaments, military industries and related sectors. Because each side has its arguments and evidence of modern economic and human experiences, it is difficult to resolve the controversy in a certain direction and ignore the opinion of the second party, but what concerns us is the situation of our country and our society and the economic and social pressures and renewed threats from time to time, and what is the most objective and credible reading of the authors of the philosophy of the Iraqi economy, and its emerging priorities developed after 2003, through the trends of the federal budget in this country. Given the financial crisis that is ravaging the global economy as a result of the Corona pandemic and the great isolation measures Great Lockdown and the repercussions of this crisis on the Iraqi economy as a result of the collapse of the world oil markets, so discussions are escalating in the field of rationalization and efficiency of government public spending, and because the general budget depends on the general revenues on oil revenues by more than 90% in most years after 2003, so an external shock or collapse in the oil market affects the revenues of the general budget, and therefore there is a situation The uncertainty of budget planners and implementers in collecting the revenues required to cover the public expenditure side, and the most important items of governing public expenditure, namely employee compensation, support for the poor and others.

scholarly journals Impacto del gasto público en la calidad del sistema de salud de México

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
María Guadalupe ZÁRATE-MARTÍNEZ ◽  
Paulina AGUILERA-ARREDONDO ◽  
Artemio JIMÉNEZ-RICO
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Optimal Health

Health is considered a Human Right that every person should receive for free and in quality, it is important in the fact that it is a basic service for the development of a country. In Mexico, public spending on health is equivalent to 2.5% of GDP, however, the OECD indicates that it is necessary to allocate at least 6% to have an optimal Health System. In the same tenor, Mexico has 2.9 nurses per thousand inhabitants, while Norway has 17.8 nurses per thousand. The objective of this research is to analyze public spending for the health sector to determine its impact on the main indicators that measure the quality of service provided by the Mexican Health System. Some results indicate that Mexico faces complex and challenging health needs and that there are huge discrepancies compared to other countries. This research contributes to providing a broader perspective on the public expenditure allocated to the Health System of Mexico in order to design public policies that allow offering high-quality care focused on people.

scholarly journals Dampak Penerapan Akuntansi Forensik dan Audit Investigasi dalam Mendeteksi Fraud Pengadaan Barang/Jasa

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Retno Ratu Wiharti ◽  
Novita Novita
Keyword(s):  
Total Sample ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Forensic Accounting ◽  
Partial Least Square Analysis ◽  
Analysis Technique

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the forensic accounting and audit investigations in detecting fraud procurement of goods and services. The rise of fraud cases in Indonesia, one of which is fraud related to public needs, namely the procurement of goods and services. This is reminiscent of the real threat of fraud in the form of corruption in the procurement of goods and services that can cause poor quality of goods / services produced so that they cannot serve the public interest effectively and efficiently. In this context, the community is the most disadvantaged party. Collecting data in this study through the distribution of questionnaires with a total sample of 34 auditor respondents in the field of Investigation of the Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan dan Pembangunan DKI Jakarta. This research uses PLS (Partial Least Square) analysis technique, using SmartPLS software testing tool version 3.2.8. The results of this study indicate that the results of the analysis of the application of forensic accounting and investigative audits have a significant effect in detecting fraud procurement of goods / services.

scholarly journals The Role of E-Government in Promoting Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (141) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Sadiq
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
The Public

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has helped accelerate the digitization of public services. The lockdown initiated by most governments to curb the spread of the coronavirus forced most public agencies to switch to online platforms to continue providing information and services to the public. It is widely recognized that information diffusion and communication technology play a large role in improving the quality of public services in terms of time, cost, and interface with the public, business, and other agencies. Potentially, e-government could enhance a country’s locational advantages and attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. This hypothesis is tested empirically using an unbalanced panel data analysis for 178 host countries over the period 2003-2018. The results suggest that e-government stimulates the inflow of FDI.

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