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Managing Public Expenditure: The UK Approach

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  • Paul van den Noord
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The UK medium-term budgetary framework introduced in 1997 addressed a number of weaknesses of the former regime, notably a bias against capital expenditure and, more generally, poor conditions for longerterm planning adversely affecting central government spending departments, local authorities and public enterprises. Departmental spending was indeed characterised by pronounced swings and capital spending was squeezed to very low levels. These weaknesses are considered the major cause for the poor performance of crucial public services. The present paper discusses the new budgetary framework and examines the scope for further improvement ... La gestion des dépenses publiques : L'approche du Royaume-Uni Les prévisions de dépenses actuelles au Royaume-Uni s’inscrivent dans le cadre budgétaire à moyen terme mis en place en 1997 et a permis de remédier à un certain nombre de faiblesses du dispositif antérieur, notamment une distorsion à l’encontre des dépenses d’équipement et, d’une manière plus générale, des conditions peu propices à une planification à long terme, ayant une incidence négative sur les dépenses des ministères de l’administration centrale, des autorités locales et des entreprises publiques. Ces dépenses se caractérisaient en effet par de fortes fluctuations, et les dépenses d’équipement avaient été réduites à un très bas niveau. Ces faiblesses sont considérée comme la principale cause des mauvais résultats enregistrés par certains services publics essentiels. Ce document de travail discute le nouveau cadre de la politique budgétaire et examine les possibilités d’amélioration ...

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  • Paul van den Noord, 2002. "Managing Public Expenditure: The UK Approach," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 341, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:341-en
    DOI: 10.1787/541200211154
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    1. Gulrajani, Nilima, 2017. "Bilateral Donors and the Age of the National Interest: What Prospects for Challenge by Development Agencies?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 375-389.

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    Keywords

    budget systems; efficacité du secteur public; fiscal policy; politique fiscale; public sector efficiency; système budgétaire;
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    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
    • H61 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Budget; Budget Systems

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