Additional information is available for the following registered author(s):

• David Rae

This paper reviews public expenditure in New Zealand and the scope for further progress. Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has been a world leader in public management reforms. Government agencies have been transformed by delegating managerial responsibility to them and replacing input controls with an output-based budgeting and management approach. The adoption of a medium-term top-down fiscal management framework contributed to a large reduction in public debt. But while the system is good at producing outputs cheaply and often in innovative, responsive, and customer-driven ways, it is not as good at choosing what to produce in the first place (i.e. technical versus allocative efficiency). This reflects insufficient evaluation of programmes, not enough focus on managing for outcomes, and a budget that is excessively fragmented. The quality of spending could also be improved by a greater willingness to extend the use of market-based mechanisms, including usercharges, competition ...

Prochaines étapes pour les dépenses publiques en Nouvelle-Zélande : A la recherche de l’efficacité

Le présent article examine les dépenses publiques en Nouvelle-Zélande et la possibilité de les améliorer. Depuis le milieu des années 80, la Nouvelle-Zélande a été un chef de file mondial en matière de réformes de la gestion publique. Les organismes publics ont été transformés en leur attribuant des responsabilités de gestion et en remplaçant les contrôles des ressources par une approche de planification et de gestion des résultats. L’adoption d’un cadre de gestion budgétaire à moyen-terme de conception descendante a contribué à réduire fortement l’endettement public. Mais si le système est satisfaisant pour produire moins cher et souvent de façon innovante, réactive et tourné vers le client, il n’est pas aussi performant pour choisir ce qu’il faut produire d’abord (ex. efficience technique ou allocative). Cela reflète une insuffisance au niveau de l’évaluation des programmes qui n’est pas assez ciblée sur la gestion des résultats et un budget qui est trop fragmenté. La qualité des ...

Download Info

To download:

If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.

Publisher Info

Paper provided by OECD, Economics Department in its series OECD Economics Department Working Papers with number 337.

Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML (with abstract), plain text (with abstract), BibTeX, RIS (EndNote, RefMan, ProCite), ReDIF
Length:
Date of creation: 02 Aug 2002
Date of revision:
Handle: RePEc:oec:ecoaaa:337-en

Contact details of provider:
Postal: 2 rue Andre Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16
Email:
Web page: http://www.oecd.org
More information through EDIRC

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its listing, contact: ().

Related research

Keywords: fiscal transparency; government expenditure; public management; welfare programmes; dépenses publiques; gestion publique; programmes de garantie de ressources; transparence budgétaire;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
H0 - Public Economics - - General
H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
H6 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Did you know? IDEAS was launched in September 1997.

This page was last updated on 2009-12-18.