IfG in the news

2nd February 2012

Government Needs To Make 'Fundamental Changes' To Meet Spending Challenge, Says NAO

Government departments need to make "fundamental changes" to successfully cut spending by 2015, spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

Source: The Huffington Post

23rd January 2012

Will LSE's growth commission make a difference?

Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers and current OBR (and ex-MPC) member Steve Nickell have given evidence

Source: The Guardian Economics Blog

9th January 2012

Carry on policy-making: the case for change in Whitehall

Successful policies will need greater change in Whitehall: David Walker urges the Institute for Government to keep stacking up the ammunition

Source: The Guardian

9th January 2012

Learning lessons from history proves to be the best policy

History is littered with the failures of cherished government policies...The failures make media headlines. Lessons are drawn from them by academics and by the National Audit Office...Far less attention is paid to the successes. But they do exist.

Source: FT.com (subscription required)

20th December 2011

Who is taking the biggest hit from grim public sector job stats?

The latest employment figures from the Office of National Statistics make grim reading for all those working in and with the public sector...But which sections of the public sector are facing the worst of the cuts?

Source: The Guardian

Expenditure presentations

Hon Jocelyne Bourgon. Large scale expenditure reduction in Canada: Program Review 1994-99. 12 May 2009 [video]

Lord Terry Burns, Dirk-Jan Kraan, Sir John Gieve, Bill Dorotinsky. Using performance data to inform budgetary decisions. 13 July 2009 [pdf]

Christopher Hood, Sir Nicholas Monck, Gemma Tetlow. Using the past to inform the future: UK spending cuts in historical perspective. 1 June 2009 [pdf]

Göran Persson. Public expenditure management in Sweden. 15 September 2009 [video]

Göran Persson. Public expenditure management in Sweden. 15 September 2009 [pdf]

Rick Van der Ploeg, Helmer Vossers, David Heald. Public expenditure management in the Netherlands: Prudent budgeting, fiscal retrenchment and market reform. 29 September 2009

McCrae, J., Myers, J. and Glatzel, K. Collaborative Fiscal Consolidation. 10 December 2009 [pdf]

Joachim Wehner, Mark Hallerberg, Christian Kastrop, Robert Chote. Rethinking the UK's fiscal architecture: A comparative perspective. 30 November 2009: here, here and here [pdf]

Simon Wren-Lewis, Lars Calmfors, Sir Alan Budd, Robert Chote. Fiscal institutions and budget oversight. 15 October 2009: here and here [pdf]

Public Expenditure