Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public expenditure management : selected themes and issues / A. Premchand -- Capital budgeting and planning / Wes Clarke -- Financial management of economic development / J. Scott McDonald -- Annual budgeting and long-range planning : is there a fit? - lessons from three case studies / Yilin Hou and Jun Ma -- The property tax : past, present and future / Deborah A. Carroll and Benjamin J. Sharbel -- E-commerce and the future of the state sales tax system / Christopher G. Reddick and Jerrell D. Coggburn -- Lessons of tax compliance research for lawmakers and tax administrators : getting best returns from limited resources / John L. Mikesell and Liucija Birskyte -- The lottery as an economic stimulus tool : the case of Florida / Susan A. MacManus -- Promoting economic development with tax incentives : a primer on property tax abatements / Esteban G. Dalehite -- Rating general obligation debt : implications of resource scarcity / Steven G. Koven and Stuart C. Strother -- State debt capacity and debt limits : theory and practice / Dwight V. Denison and Merl Hackbart -- Working capital management in government : basic concepts and policy choices / Aman Khan -- Fund balance, working capital, and net assets / Justin Marlowe -- A manageable system of economic condition analysis for governments / Dean Michael Mead -- The management of public pensions / Jerrell D. Coggburn and Christopher G. Reddick -- An econometric assessment of state and local government retirement system governance practices, investment strategies, and financial performance / William G. Albrecht and Thomas D. Lynch -- Toward financial freedom : budgetary reform in the U.S. courts / J. Edward Gibson -- Public participation in local performance measurement and budgeting / Alfred Ho and Paul Coates -- Enhancing the utilization of performance measures in local government : lessons from practice / Milan J. Dluhy -- The intersection of accounting and local government performance measurement / Ken Smith and Lee Schiffel -- Reformed county government and service delivery performance : an integrated study of Florida counties / Alejandro Rodriguez -- Federal performance reporting requirements : from financial management to e-government / Patrick R. Mullen -- Public finance reform in selected Britsh commonwealth countries / Jayesh D'Souza -- Modernizing public budgeting and financial management in China / Yun Ma and Meili Niu.