Public private partnerships

the worldwide revolution in infrastructure provision and project finance

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment ...

The economics of public procurement

This volume explores all aspects of contemporary public procurement theory, examining managing risk in procurement, collusion in procurement, efficiency in procurement, transparency in procurement, and auction design.

Risk and crisis management in the public sector

A particular feature of modern, post-industrial societies is their growing awareness of risk and crisis management. This book's main theme is therefore the context, concepts and practice of risk and crisis management in the public sector in Western, notably European, and Asia Pacific countries ...

Presupuestos de la Seguridad Social

cifras y datos. Ejercicio 2007

Esta publicación, que se inscribe en el programa de información a los ciudadanos y transparencia en la gestión que el Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales está llevando a cabo, tiene como fin ofrecer una síntesis de la información recogida en el Presupuesto de la ...

El servicio civil de carrera en Latinoamérica

diagnóstico, causas y propuestas

El estudio, según el autor, pretende analizar los rasgos esenciales de los servicios civiles en América Latina y trata de aportar soluciones al problema de las dificultades de implantación de los modelos merotocráticos en diversos países del continente americano. Comienza el trabajo con una revisión ...

Principles of project and infrastructure

Current books on project finance tend to be non-technical and are either procedural or rely heavily on case studies. In contrast this textbook provides a more analytical perspective, without a loss of pragmatism. Principles of Project Finance and Infrastructure is written for senior undergraduates, graduate ...

The other invisible hand

delivering public services through choice and competition

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive ...

Endogenous public policy and contests

This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in the determination of public policy. Applying strategic contest theory as the basic methodology, it clarifies the fundamental parameters that determine the behavior of the government and the ...

Costs and benefits of collective pension systems

The Dutch pension system is often praised as one of the best in the world: it is efficient, it provides certainty to participants and it preserves cohesion and solidarity among workers and pensioners. This book presents these benefits in detail, supported by quantitative evidence. It ...

Modernización y Estado de Bienestar en España

El Estado de Bienestar es el resultado del proceso de modernización llevado a cabo en Europa desde finales del siglo XIX, hasta conformar un conjunto de instituciones, derechos y garantías que interactúan con los sistemas político, económico, jurídico y de valores. Es mucho más que ...

Public sector auditing

is it value form money?

Drawing on 20 years of experience as Comptroller and Auditor General, and head of the United Kingdom National Audit Office, "Public Sector Auditing: Is it Value for Money?" is Sir John Bourn's own account of the role and influence value for money auditing has ...

La evaluación de las políticas públicas

Los perfiles del presupuesto

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº195, año 2006)

El presupuesto de defensa en España

1946-2006

The Welfare State in the European Union

economic and social perspectives

This book provides a balanced and rigorous account of the current functioning and performance of the welfare state in Europe. Its main feature is a basic trust in the various missions of the welfare state, particularly poverty alleviation. Accordingly, in an attempt at comparing different ...

Welfare economics and social choice theory

Table of Contents: 1 Preferences and utility 2 Barter exchange 3 Welfare properties of market exchange 4 Welfare properties of "jungle" exchange 5 Economies with production 6 Uncertainty in exchange 7 Externalities 8 Public goods 9 Compensation criteria 10 Fairness and the rawls criterion 11 ...

The Oxford handbook of public management

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many different countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management: some ...

La calidad del gobierno

evaluación económica de las políticas públicas

Sin información perfecta, los ciudadanos y los responsables públicos toman decisiones periódicamente cuya ejecución demanda recursos económicos. La acción electoral y las decisiones de gobierno pueden ser más eficientes cuando sus protagonistas disponen de más y mejor información. Las consecuencias de estas decisiones, las alternativas ...

The calculus of retirement income

financial models for pension annuities and life insurance

The book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a unique financial perspective. The ideas and techniques are then applied to the real-world problem of generating sustainable retirement income towards the end of the ...

Organización de gobiernos y mercados

análisis de casos desde la Nueva Economía Institucional

La configuración institucional importa. Esta ha sido una de las expresiones que, desde la década de los 90, más han prodigado economistas teóricos, asesores económicos y decisores políticos. Los aspectos relacionados con la organización de unos u otros gobiernos y mercados constituyen factores clave para ...