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Fiscal Discipline in a Decentralised Administration: The Spanish Experience

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11-Aug-2009

This article analyses the experience of the Spanish government in achieving financial equilibrium between 1998 and 2003 and the institutional mechanisms for maintaining budget stability. Spain has a high ...

Economic survey of Spain 2007: Medium and long-term fiscal issues

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23-Jan-2007

Budget outcomes have improved in the last decade. However, further efforts are needed to maintain sound fiscal policy in the medium run and to prepare for the long-term effects of ageing and the resulting ...

Economic survey of Spain 2007: Returning to more sustainable growth

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23-Jan-2007

The relatively high inflation rate is undermining competitiveness, while domestic demand pressures, spurred by vigorous housing investments, have intensified, worsening also the external deficit. Addressing ...

Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation in Spain

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21-Jul-2005

Isabelle Joumard and Claude Giorno

Fiscal federalism in Spain.  Economics Department Working Paper 436.

The Legal Framework for Budget Systems: An International Comparison (OECD Journal on Budgeting, Volume 4, Number 3)

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01-Jul-2005

Ian Lienert and Moo-Kyung Jung

The legal basis for budget processes and budget actors varies enormously across OECD countries. For example, the United States has a dozen major laws to support federal government budget processes, ...

Meeting of the OECD Council at Ministerial Level, 2005: Enabling Globalisation

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02-May-2005

This year’s OECD Ministerial Council Meeting will be held at OECD Headquarters on 3-4 May 2005 under the chairmanship of Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden, with the overarching theme of “Enabling ...

Economic Survey - Spain 2005: Getting the most out of public sector decentralisation.

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17-Mar-2005

Taking the most out of decentralization requires improving information sharing across regions governments and ensuring fiscal transparency for sub-national governments. The financing system of regions ...

The quality of public expenditure: Challenges and solution of result-focused management in Spain

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28-Feb-2003

Eduardo Zapico Goni

This case study reflects on 20 years of result focused management of public expenditure in Spain. It looks at budgetary processes and changes that were implemented.  It offers a general assessment, lessons learned and conclusions.

Issues and Perspectives: Performance-Based Accountability in Spain's Public Service

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01-Jan-2001

The legal perspective on accountability has been historically the dominant concern of Spain's public sector leaders and civil servants. Accountability is controlled through rules and regulations that establish ...

Managing Across Levels of Government: Spain...

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01-Jan-2001

The structures, powers and responsibilities of sub-national governments have experienced a radical transformation in the last 20 years. From a highly centralised system in which there were only two levels ...