The new public finance
Subtitle: responding to global challenges
By: edited by Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceição.
Contributors: Kaul, Inge.; Conceição, Pedro.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 664
Subjects: Finance, Public -- International cooperation.; Public-private sector cooperation.
Description: This publication presents a systematic account of how public finance has responded to the growing importance of the many global challenges. The book documents a refurbishment of governments public-finance toolkit, with greater reliance on international finance and insurance markets for risk management.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published for The United Nations Development Programme."
Table of contents: title: The new national public finance: taking the outside world into account; title: The rise of the intermediary state / Inge Kaul; title: Making social policy under efficiency pressures from globalization / Vito Tanzi; title: Addressing long-term fiscal challenges in an interconnected world / Peter Heller; title: Macro markets: managing risks to national economies / Robert Shiller; title: National taxation in a globalizing world: policy sovereignty and coordination / Peggy Musgrave; title: Recognizing the limits to cooperation behind national borders: financing the control of international terrorism / Todd Sandler; title: The new international public finance: relying on public-private partnering; title: The new players on the ground: global public-private partnerships / Inge Kaul; title: Financing mechanisms for international cooperation: growing numbers, diversity and issue-specificity / Pedro Conceição; title: The right money at the right time: bringing new financing technology to international cooperation / Pedro Conceição, Hari Rajan, Rajiv Shah; title: Financing international cooperation: a public choice analysis / Philip Jones; title: The new international public financeinvesting in global public goods provision abroad; title: Identifying high-return investments: when does international cooperation payand for whom? / Pedro Conceição & Ronald Mendoza; title: Making international cooperation pay: money as a strategic incentive / Scott Barrett; title: "Trading" global public services: the incentive of incremental cost payments / Kenneth King; title: Letting new markets find the price: a case study of the Chicago Climate Exchange / Richard Sandor; title: Using existing markets more efficiently: facilitating access of developing countries to commodity futures and options markets / Wyn Morgan; title: A new perspective on the SDR mechanism: reducing the cost of holding reserves / Jaques Polak & Peter Clark; title: Restructuring unsustainable sovereign debt: the merits of the contractual and the statutory approach / Barry Eichengreen; title: Excursus: public finance in the European Union: emerging lessons for international cooperation / Brigid Laffan; title: The new international public financeincentivizing foreign aid; title: Some things cannot yet change: the continuing need for multilateral development finance / Yilmaz Akyuz; title: Creating incentives to graduate from grants to loans / Paul Collier; title: Offering challenge grants: the MCA / Steven Radelet; title: Overcoming smallness: the challenge of underfunded regionalism / Nancy Birdsall; title: Purchase commitments: incentives for private sector involvement in poverty reduction / Michael Kremer & Alix Peterson-Zwane; title: From direct to indirect donor financing: the role of guarantees in attracting private finance to developing countries / Stephany Griffith-Jones.