Reforming budget systems in countries of the former soviet union
By: MIKESELL, John
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Contributor(s): MULLINS, Daniel R.
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, sep./oct.2001Public Administration Review: PAR 61, 5, p. 548-569Abstract: The countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) required considerable revision to their budget processes and procedures to establish systems consistent with transformation from controlled dependencies within a larger planned economy to independent governments of fledgling marketoriented democracies. This article considers the degree to which preexisting, reforming, and reformed budget systems in FSU countries deliver the basic expectations of a public sector resource allocation system. Evidence indicates failures to realing budgeting and finance systems designed for command and control environments to the demands of more market based economic systems, with effects often magnified gy the hybrid economies of these transitional states. Significant difficulties and shrtcoming sin the ability of existing sytems to perform basic public sector allocation, managment, and control functions are the result, but some countries are ahead of others and their experience can guide reforms across the FSU
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The countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) required considerable revision to their budget processes and procedures to establish systems consistent with transformation from controlled dependencies within a larger planned economy to independent governments of fledgling marketoriented democracies. This article considers the degree to which preexisting, reforming, and reformed budget systems in FSU countries deliver the basic expectations of a public sector resource allocation system. Evidence indicates failures to realing budgeting and finance systems designed for command and control environments to the demands of more market based economic systems, with effects often magnified gy the hybrid economies of these transitional states. Significant difficulties and shrtcoming sin the ability of existing sytems to perform basic public sector allocation, managment, and control functions are the result, but some countries are ahead of others and their experience can guide reforms across the FSU
Public Administration Review PAR
September/October 2001 Volume 61 Number 5
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