Up-to-date, holistic and comprehensive discussion of public expenditure, its history, value for money, risks and remedies.

This work examines public expenditure, explaining the size and the structure of the system of public finance. Suitable for use as a course text, it can function

Originally published in 1961, this book became widely used as a textbook, as an important source of primary data on British government expenditure statistics an

This paper examines the empirical evidence on the contribution that government and, in particular, capital expenditure make to the growth performance of a sampl