Public Finance Management: Challenges and Opportunities

Three Challenges for Public Finance

Pierre Pestieau surveys the views of the public-finance profession about its recent past and future directions. The many enthusiastic and positive responses he received brightened up his own prior pessimism about the field, although he remains concerned that the profession is distracted by elegant theoretical exercises that are too restictive to be instructive for important policy questions. As...

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Provenance Management: Challenges and Opportunities

Computing has been an enormous accelerator to science and industry alike and it has led to an information explosion in many different fields. The unprecedented volume of data acquired from sensors, derived by simulations and data analysis processes, accumulated in warehouses, and often shared on the Web, has given rise to a new field of research: provenance management. Provenance (also referred...

Improving Public Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities

This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (" performance budgeting ").