Who Decides the Budget?
Mark Hallerberg
Carlos Scartascini
Ernesto Stein
The budget is the main tool used to allocate scarce public resources, and it is in the context of the budget process that politicians must make trade-offs between different policy priorities. This volume describes the budget practices, both formal and informal, in ten countries of Latin America and explains fiscal results in terms of these four features.
Paperback 2009