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

Author : Mr.Vito Tanzi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,64 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 : Mr.Vito Tanzi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 24,86 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 : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,38 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 : Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131745796X

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The authors of this work argue strongly that the decentralization that has taken place in China over the past two decades threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. They contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues, as a percentage of GNP, have declined and will continue to decline into the foreseeable future, thereby weakening China's ability to mobilize resources for modernization.

Author : Edimon Ginting
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292622838

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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play significant roles in developing economies in Asia and SOE performance remains crucial for economy-wide productivity and growth. This book looks at SOEs in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, and Viet Nam, which together present a panoramic view of SOEs in the region. It also presents insights from the Republic of Korea on the evolving role of the public sector in various stages of development. It explores corporate governance challenges and how governments could reform SOEs to make them efficient drivers of the long-term productivity-induced growth essential to Asia's transition to high-income status.

Author : Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821365762

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Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.

Author : Nicolas Spulber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 28,66 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.