Budget Theory in the Public Sector or Growth Inequality and Poverty

Budget Theory in the Public Sector

Author: Aman Khan

Dominated by multiple, competing, and occasionally overlapping theories, the act of budgeting is by no means a staid, dispiriting task. Kahn, Hildreth and their group of scholars and practitioners show that budgeting is an institutional process, an incremental decision-making tool, and when correctly applied becomes a tribute to managerial and administrative efficiency. Taken together, the chapters provide an unusually coherent conceptual foundation for budgeting as a legitimate field of study, and demonstrate yet again that in its current state the field is truly eclectic but compartmentalized. They also show why it is so difficult to come up with one unified theory of budgeting--and that is one of the book's major benefits. It opens new areas of inquiry that, in the opinion of Khan, Hildreth, and others, will generate renewed interest in probing the field's theory and applications. Understandable and readable for those with limited knowledge of the subject but needing a sufficiently useful grasp of its various issues and problems, the book is both an important reference work for scholars in the field and a practical guide for students of administration, their teachers, and for managers throughout the public sector.

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic Development

Author: Anthony Shorrocks

The relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. This volume draws together many of the most important recent contributions to the controversies surrounding this topic.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements	13
2	Growth is Good for the Poor	29
3	Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages	62
4	The Growth Elasticity of Poverty	81
5	Education is Good for the Poor: A Note on Dollar and Kraay	92
6	Growth, Distribution, and Poverty Reduction: LDCs are Falling Further Behind	107
7	Redistribution does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction	125
8	Producing an Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries	154
9	Twin Peaks: Distribution Dynamics of Economic Growth across Indian States	176
10	A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Microsimulation Study for Cote d'Ivoire	197
11	Educational Expansion and Income Distribution: A Microsimulation for Ceara	222
12	Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty: A Review	251
	Index	277