Table of Contents:
  • How political institutions, history and experience affect government budgeting processes and ways of achieving 'value for money' / Andrew Podger, Tsai-tsu Su, John Wanna, Meili Niu and Hon S. Chan
  • Government budgeting and the quest for value-for-money outcomes in Australia / John Wanna
  • Projecting long-term fiscal outcomes / Mike Woods
  • Budget reform in China: Progress and prospects in the Xi Jinping era / Christine Wong
  • Public budgeting system in Taiwan: Does it lead to better value for money? / Tsai-tsu Su
  • Making 'accountability for results' really work? / Andrew Podger
  • Adoption or implementation? Performance measurement in the City of Guangzhou's Department of Education / Meili Niu
  • Public financial management and the campaign against extravagant position-related consumption in China / Hanyu Xiao
  • Accountability reform, parliamentary oversight and the role of performance audit in Australia / Zahirul Hoque and Des Pearson
  • The development of performance auditing in Taiwan / Kai-Hung Fang and Tsai-tsu Su
  • Budgeting and financial management of public infrastructure: The experience of Taiwan / Yu-Ying Kuo and Ming Huei Cheng
  • Municipal financial strategy responses to fiscal austerity: The case of Taiwan / Hsin-Fang Tsai
  • Australia's employment services, 1998-2012: Using performance monitoring and evaluation to improve value for money / Wendy Jarvie and Trish Mercer
  • Case study of the role of third-party evaluators in performance-based budgeting reform at the local government level in China / Zaozao Zhao
  • Education outlay, fiscal transfers and interregional funding equity: A county-level analysis of education finance in China / Ping Zhang, Zizhou Bu, Youqiang Wang and Yilin Hou
  • Timely help or icing the cake? Revisiting the effect of public subsidies on private R & D investment in Taiwan / Hsini Huang and Nailing Kuo
  • 'Value for money' lessons and challenges / Andrew Podger.