IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-23543-8_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Finance and Administration

In: Implementing a Human Development Strategy

Author

Listed:
  • Keith Griffin

    (University of California)

  • Terry McKinley

    (American University)

Abstract

One of the recurring themes of this study is that a decision to adopt a human development strategy does not imply an unusually large state or an unusually heavy burden of taxation. Human development is more concerned about spending priorities than about the total volume of expenditure. How the state spends its money is more important than how much money the state spends. Given that the total resources available to the government in most developing countries is a fifth to a quarter of total income, it should be possible to finance the state’s contribution to human development by reallocating expenditure within existing revenue ceilings, without the necessity to raise additional revenues through taxation.

Suggested Citation

  • Keith Griffin & Terry McKinley, 1994. "Finance and Administration," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Implementing a Human Development Strategy, chapter 7, pages 103-124, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23543-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23543-8_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23543-8_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.