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
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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Do Remittances Reduce Aid Dependency? IMF, October 2011
Kangni Kpodar and Maëlan Le Goff, IMF Working Paper, October 2011. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=25311.0
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IMF/FAD - Revenue Mobilization in Developing Countries
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?
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
An interesting article by Erik S. Reinert underlining the importance of industrialisation for development against conventional paradigm of liberalisation.
