Since the early 1980s, most OECD countries have embarked on medium-term strategies to restore greater balance to the public finances and to wind back government intervention in the economy. The attached paper examines the progress so far. It also reviews and evaluates some of the changes to public sector management practices which were implemented in the 1980s and assesses some of the pressures on the public sector which are likely to arise in the 1990s. Most OECD governments appear to have made significant headway in budgetary consolidation, particularly in the second half of the last decade, and public expenditure as a share of GDP has stabilised for the area as a whole, once allowance is made for cyclical effects. There has also been som...
This article explores the patterned variations in the references in election manifestos of political...
Public administration has entered a new age. In the 1980s, "less" government was the prevailing idea...
National audienceSince the last years public expenditures are strictly limited for reducing public d...
The 1990s saw an era of fiscal consolidation in industrialised countries, which struggled with fisca...
The 1990s saw an era of fiscal consolidation in industrialised countries, which struggled with fisca...
In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past decades to the...
This paper starts from a major contradiction in the literature on recent public sector development. ...
This paper assesses to what extent some components of government budgets affected by the macroeconom...
In this paper, we try to interpret several important trends in the size of governments and governmen...
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, to...
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, to...
The public sector’s share in domestic output has stagnated since the late 1980s, its share in capita...
Changes in public sector accow~ting i a number of OECD countries over the 198Bs were central to the ...
This paper reviews fiscal policy, government indebtedness and its implications for economic performa...
The last two decades have seen substantial public sector reforms efforts around the world. A leading...
This article explores the patterned variations in the references in election manifestos of political...
Public administration has entered a new age. In the 1980s, "less" government was the prevailing idea...
National audienceSince the last years public expenditures are strictly limited for reducing public d...
The 1990s saw an era of fiscal consolidation in industrialised countries, which struggled with fisca...
The 1990s saw an era of fiscal consolidation in industrialised countries, which struggled with fisca...
In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past decades to the...
This paper starts from a major contradiction in the literature on recent public sector development. ...
This paper assesses to what extent some components of government budgets affected by the macroeconom...
In this paper, we try to interpret several important trends in the size of governments and governmen...
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, to...
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, to...
The public sector’s share in domestic output has stagnated since the late 1980s, its share in capita...
Changes in public sector accow~ting i a number of OECD countries over the 198Bs were central to the ...
This paper reviews fiscal policy, government indebtedness and its implications for economic performa...
The last two decades have seen substantial public sector reforms efforts around the world. A leading...
This article explores the patterned variations in the references in election manifestos of political...
Public administration has entered a new age. In the 1980s, "less" government was the prevailing idea...
National audienceSince the last years public expenditures are strictly limited for reducing public d...