[PDF] The Growth Of Government And The Reform Of The State In Industrial Countries eBook

Author : Mr.Vito Tanzi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451933851

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This paper describes the growth of public spending in industrial countries over the past century. It identifies several periods: the periods between 1870 and 1913; the period between the two World Wars; the post World War II period up to 1960; and the period after 1960. Public spending started growing during World War I but its growth accelerated after 1960. The paper outlines the reasons for this growth and speculates that recent government growth has not brought about much economic or social progress. The paper sees the future of government mainly in setting the “rules of the game,” and provides a rough blueprint for reform. It also discusses experiences with government reform in selected count les, and predicts that over the next decades, public spending as a share of GDP will fall.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2010-05-26
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ISBN : 9264086293

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This collection of essays analyses the reform experiences of the 30 OECD countries in nine major policy domains in order to identify lessons, pitfalls and strategies that may help foster policy reform in the future.

Author : Chris Howell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1400820790

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In May and June of 1968 a dramatic wave of strikes paralyzed France, making industrial relations reform a key item on the government agenda. French trade unions seemed due for a golden age of growth and importance. Today, however, trade unions are weaker in France than in any other advanced capitalist country. How did such exceptional militancy give way to equally remarkable quiescence? To answer this question, Chris Howell examines the reform projects of successive French governments toward trade unions and industrial relations during the postwar era, focusing in particular on the efforts of post-1968 conservative and socialist governments. Howell explains the genesis and fate of these reform efforts by analyzing constraints imposed on the French state by changing economic circumstances and by the organizational weakness of labor. His approach, which links economic, political, and institutional analysis, is broadly that of Regulation Theory. His explicitly comparative goal is to develop a framework for understanding the challenges facing labor movements throughout the advanced capitalist world in light of the exhaustion of the postwar pattern of economic growth, the weakening of the nation-state as an economic actor, and accelerating economic integration, particularly in Europe.

Author : Mr.Vito Tanzi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451943458

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This paper discusses the role of the state from a historical perspective. It outlines how that role has changed over the past hundred years and discusses the forces that have promoted the changes. In the period between 1913 and 1980, there was a large increase in public spending in industrial countries and a considerable expansion in the role of the government in the economy in all countries. The paper also outlines the intellectual developments that, starting in the 1970s, have brought about a reaction to the large role that the state has come to play in the economy.

Author : Nicolas Spulber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521594251

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Covers the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the growth and reform of the welfare state.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464807744

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Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.

Author : Shaoguang Wang
Publisher : East Gate Book
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This study argues that the decentralization that has taken place in China since 1980 threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. The authors contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues will continue to decline.