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Innovations in financing public services : country case studies / edited by Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko.
- Title
- Innovations in financing public services : country case studies / edited by Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama and Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.
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- Description
- xiv, 292 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing. It includes case studies taken from the Nordic countries, UK, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and South Korea.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Innovative public finance: definition, practice and context -- Beyond PFI: procurement of public sector infrastructure and the evolving plurality of methods in the UK -- Innovations in private sector provision of infrastructure in South Korea -- The distinctive financing of road infrastructures in Spain: evolution and innovation -- Public-private partnerships in Slovenia: reverse financial innovations enhancing the public role -- Local government funding agencies: lessons from success and failure -- Innovation in local government risk financing: lessons from the UK and Nordic experiences -- Innovations in financing higher education in Slovakia -- Innovation in the Turkish budgetary system: recent developments in public governance -- Co-payments: innovations in the balance between public and private finance -- Vouchers as innovative funding of public services -- Public service vouchers in the UK and Finland.
- ISBN
- 9780230241596 (alk. paper)
- 023024159X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010484409
- OCLC
- 587209688
- SCSB-11636597
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library