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Public spending and social progress
Source: NCPA
Author: Gerald Scully
Country: United States

New research indicates that advanced countries do not benefit, in terms of social progress, from government consumption spending beyond 18.6 percent of GNP. The optimal level of per capita government spending is only 5.6 percent of GNP. (7/18/00)

Reforming financial management in the public sector: lessons the US can learn from New Zealand
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Ian Ball, Tony Dale, William D. Eggers, and John Sacco
Country: United States

"As U.S. state and local governments begin the transition to new and improved financial and accounting systems, they could find no better model for how to get from the traditional to the new than in New Zealand." RPPI Policy Study #258. (6/13/99)

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