BUDGET REFORM

Budget-holding: the answer to Australian primary care reform?

In common with other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Australia is experiencing growth in expenditure on health care. However, while many other nations continue to pursue some variation of managed competition to address these problems, Australia has chosen a more incremental reform path, with initiatives such as the General Practice Strategy, restrictions ...

The 1995 Budget and Health Care Reform: A Generational Perspective

by Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Alan J. Auerbach is a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate of (he National Bureau of Economic Research, Jagadeesh Gokhale is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University and an associate of the National...

Health Care and the Budget: Issues and Challenges for Reform

Debt Level and Fiscal Rules in Iran According to Budget Structural Reform

Oil-exporting countries often escalate macroeconomic fluctuations by adopting cyclical fiscal policies. Empirical evidence shows that the main reason of instability in oil-exporting countries is the poor management of oil. In this study, after introducing a small open macroeconomic model with a dual managed floating exchange rate regime and estimating it using quarterly macroeconomic data of Ir...

Investigating the Validity of Wagner's Law and Performance-Based Budget Reform in Public Expenditure of Selected Asian Countries

Wagner's law indicates a positive long-run equilibrium relationship between per capita income growth and the relative size of the public sector. Accordingly, the main purpose of this article is to verify Wagner's theory and the law on operational budgeting reforms on public spending and educational, health, and military priorities. To meet these ends, the data of 13 Asian selected countries dur...