The parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet once again in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 9 December.…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
Fiscal policy is taking centre stage. Among advanced countries, the news is bad; Europe’s periphery teeters, the UK slashes, the US…
Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in…
Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first…
A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of…
Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back…
The paper studies forecasts of real growth rates and budget balances made by official government agencies among 33 countries. In general,…