TY - JOUR
AU - Desai, Deval
AU - Herbert, Sruthi
AU - Lutringer, Christine
PY - 2022
DA - August
TI - Introduction. Critical issues emerging from the study of unspent funds
JO - International Development Policy
EP - 14
VL - 14
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.5160
AB - This chapter introduces the thematic volume The Puzzle of Unspent Funds. It explains the scope of the Volume, which conducts a cross-context analysis of unspent funds in its other individual chapters. These chapters span two different socio-economic and institutional contexts: India and Italy, thus presenting valuable points of comparison. They map underspending through the four fiscal phases of collection, allocation, use and monitoring of funds, analysing these phases through the key notions of fiscal architecture and administrative structures, which this chapter explains before emphasizing the main contributions of each individual chapter. This Volume provides an innovative perspective to analyse institutional design and reforms in multilevel governance contexts; administrative and bureaucratic state practices; modalities of state-society engagement; and mechanisms to increase democratic accountability.
PB - Open Edition Journals
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/f613029f-e36e-4e18-ae66-f6caef95d10c
KW - Poverty
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Socioeconomic factors
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