Budget and Control: Guidelines for Reform in Latin America - Softcover

Petrei, Humberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886938415 ISBN 13: 9781886938410

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank, 1999

Synopsis

New methods of public management are transforming the structure of modern governments. These methods, sometimes called managerialism, essentially adapt private sector management principles and practices to the public sector.

Although in theory Latin American governments prepare their budgets according to programs, for the most part they are still input-based--focused mainly on what the state plans to purchase. This approach should be replaced either by output-based budgeting, a system geared towards goods and services to be provided by the state, or by results budgeting, which focuses on what the state proposes to accomplish.

Budget and Control examines the institutional arrangements required for the countries of the region to reform their budget and control systems. The book is based on two decades of reform experience in the leading countries in the field of budget preparation, evaluation and control, with case studies of six Latin American countries. Public officials and policymakers working with budgets, as well as students of development economics, will find this book a valuable tool.

About this title

Synopsis:

Although in theory Latin American governments prepare their budgets according to programmes, for the most part they are still input-based - focused mainly on what the state plans to purchase. This approach should be replaced by output-based budgeting, a system geared towards goods and services to be provided by the state, or by results budgeting, which focuses on what the state proposes to accomplish. This is an examination of the institutional arrangements required for the countries of the region to reform their budget and control systems. It is based on two decades of reform experience in the leading countries in the field of budget preparation, evaluation and control, with case studies of six Latin American countries.

About the Author:

Humberto Petrei, former Director of the Central Bank of Argentina, and author of numerous articles on public sector economics, is currently Executive Director for Argentina at the IDB.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press / The Inter-American Development Bank
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1886938415
• ISBN 13: 9781886938410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450