Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: governance, accountability, sector, public, budgetary, institutions, budgeting
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 2007-05-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821369393
ISBN-13: 9780821369395

Budgeting and budgetary institutions play a critical role in resource allocation, government accountability, and improved fiscal and social outcomes. This volume distills lessons from practices in designing better fiscal institutions, citizen friendly budgets, and open and transparent processes of budget preparation and execution. It also highlights newer concepts of performance budgeting, accrual accounting, activity based costing, and the use of information and communication technology in budgeting. These tools of analysis are supplemented by a review of budgeting in post-conflict countries

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: accountability, governance, sector, public, series, management, fiscal
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361422
ISBN-13: 9780821361429

Accountability of government to citizens¡Vthe idea that the public sector must answer to the people for its performance¡Vis the foundation for good governance. Under good governance, public expenditures are allocated to maximize welfare, revenues are collected efficiently, and the public at large has access to a number of public services including water and sanitation, infrastructure, education and health. Unfortunately in many developing countries, the people suffer the results of dysfunctional governance systems that fail to provide even minimal levels of vital public services. This happen

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: governance, sector, public, accountability, budgeting, participatory
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821369237
ISBN-13: 9780821369234

This book presents an authoritative guide to the principles and practices of participatory budgeting (PB). PB represents a direct democracy approach to budgeting. The PB offers citizens at large an opportunity to learn about government operations and deliberate, debate and influence the allocation of public resources. It is a tool for citizens education, engagement and empowerment and strengthening demand for good governance. Enhanced transparency and accountability brought about by this tool can help reduce government inefficiency, waste and curb clientele-ism, patronage and corruption. PB a

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: public, governance, accountability, sector, series, services, delivery
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2005-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361406
ISBN-13: 9780821361405

The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of ¡§government performance¡¨ can only be an effective tool in public debate when there are concrete statistics measuring perform

Authors:Anwar Shah, Anwar Shah,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: governance, accountability, sector, public, budgeting, local
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-05-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821369458
ISBN-13: 9780821369456

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of local budgeting needed to develop sound fiscal administration such as setting priorities, planning, financial control over inputs, management of operations and accountability to citizens. Topics covered include fiscal administration, forecasting, fiscal discipline, fiscal transparency, integrity of revenue administration, budget formats, and processes including performance budgeting, and capital budgeting.

Authors:Anwar Shah, Anwar Shah,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: governance, accountability, sector, public, local, finances, macrofederalism
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-06-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821363263
ISBN-13: 9780821363263

The design of a federal system to deal with growth, stabilization, and regional and local development issues is the primary concern of this volume, edited by Anwar Shah. The book provides analytical tools to address issues arising from globalization, localization, and regional integration. It discusses tax harmonization issues associated with subnational value added tax administration. It provides a framework for fiscal discipline in a federal system. Lessons from international experiences from policies to deal with lagging regions are drawn. The book empirically examines the effect of fiscal

Authors:Anwar Shah, Anwar Shah,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: accountability, sector, governance, public, corruption, combating, performance
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0821369415
ISBN-13: 9780821369418

This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption.