Military Budgets, Underdevolpment and Dependency

Screening Budgets

How should an organization’s center allocate resources units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews, important information will remain asymmetrically held. If units value their own expenditures more than those of their peers, they will seek excess budgets and expenditures. Fortunately, budget authorities can infer productivities from units’ exp...

GENDER BUDGETS MAKE CENTS Understanding Gender Responsive Budgets

Debbie Budlender: Debbie Budlender is a principal researcher for the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), Cape Town, South Africa. A founding member of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, she is the leading international adviser on gender responsive budget (GRB) initiatives, having worked in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas. She has also written extensively o...

Monotonicity, Revenue Equivalence and Budgets

We study multidimensional mechanism design in a common scenario where players have private information about their willingness to pay and their ability to pay. We provide a complete characterization of dominant-strategy incentive-compatible direct mechanisms where overreporting the budget is not possible. In several settings, reporting larger budgets can be made suboptimal with a small randomiz...

Integrating Allocation and Stabilization Budgets

Economics, Nutrition and Family Budgets

Vol. 14 The National Food Survey of Great Britain households. From the nutritional aspect these families are of high importance, because they contained about a quarter of the children in all households surveyed. The annual average calcium intakes for these families can be obtained with a standard error of 0.8% so that differences between two sample annual averages must be just over 2% to achiev...