Economics, public finance and budget support

Group type: Public group

Duke University accepting applications for Budgeting and Financial Mgmt training program

The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) will conduct the program on Budgeting and Financial Management in the Public Sector (BUDGET) at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S., July 22 – August 10, 2012. The three-week program is organized around four modules—budget and the national economy, budget processes and frameworks, budgeting and financial management techniques, and public sector reform. The program is a combination of theoretical concepts and techniques, and practical applications based on experience in the field.

Program on Budgeting and Financial Management in the Public Sector

From 22/07/2012 00:00 to 10/08/2012 00:00 — Durham, North Carolina (United States)

The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) will conduct the program on Budgeting and Financial Management in the Public Sector (BUDGET) at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, U.S., July 22 – August 10, 2012. The three-week program is organized around four modules—budget and the national economy, budget processes and frameworks, budgeting and financial management techniques, and public sector reform. The program is a combination of theoretical concepts and techniques, and practical applications based on experience in the field.

This event is of the type External event.
This event is organised by: Ashley Miranda, DCID

20 key questions on domestic revenue mobilisation - ECDPM, October 2011

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Fiscal challenges, development opportunities? 20 key questions on domestic revenue mobilisation - Paper from ECDPM (Bruce Byiers, Melissa Dalleau) - October 2011

Global Economic Governance: IMF Quota Reform

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Working Paper from the IMF (Arvind Virmani) examining the principles on which a reform of a quota-based global economic institution like the IMF must be based.

Transfer pricing and developing countries

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Nowadays it is estimated that 2/3 of business transactions worldwide take place within multinational enterprises. This is not without posing challenges when considering how these transactions are costed and subsequently taxed. This issue is usually designated under the generic term "transfer pricing". The question is particularly valid for developing countries where administrative capacities are usually weak.

IMF/FAD - Revenue Mobilization in Developing Countries

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The report takes stock of the IMF experience as regards domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries. The paper addresses at the same time tax policy aspects as tax administration improvements, looking at reform processes overall but also by type of taxes.

Is “Good Governance” a Good Development Strategy?

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In this working paper dated January 2008, Nicolas Meisel and Jacques Ould Aoudia challenge the link between good governance, economic growth and development.

Erik S. Reinert, Terrible Simplifiers, May 2009

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An interesting article by Erik S. Reinert underlining the importance of industrialisation for development against conventional paradigm of liberalisation.