Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management: Volume 20 Issue 1

State public pension management over the business cycle

Jun Peng

The surging stock market in the late nineties lifted the funding level of most pension plans and led to plan management decisions that left them vulnerable to the stock market…

The quest for health care decentralization: revisiting decree 159

K.M. Kassak, A. Mohammad Ali, Mitra Tauk, A.M. Abdallah

Many developing countries have at some point in their quest for health reform considered decentralization as a strategy. A search of Lebanese health policy texts revealed a call…

Community development and the u.s. intergovernmental grant system: symposium introduction

Donna M. Handley

The changing federal grant structure and its potential effects on state and local community development efforts

Jeremy L. Hall

Changing political landscape often renews the call for dramatic changes to federal community and economic development grant-in-aid programs. The most dramatic proposal in recent…

Federal grant programs for community development: déjà vu and policy paradoxes in an ill-fated initiative

Beth Walter Honadle

This article reviews and analyzes the goals and approaches espoused in the George W. Bush administration’s proposed Strengthening America’s Communities Initiative (SACI). Drawing…

The community development balancing act: reconciling expectations for a hybrid block grant

Carl W. Stenberg

Community development was one of the first block grant programs, a “hybrid” which retained categorical features and constraints. The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) has…

State rural development policy: the role of the community development block grant program

Robert Blair, Jerome Deichert, David J. Drozd

A partnership of the federal government and the states implement rural community development policy today, yet researchers rarely examine the nature and efficacy of this extensive…

State rural development policy: the role of the community development block grant program

Robert Blair, Jerome Deichert, David J. Drozd

A partnership of the federal government and the states implement rural community development policy today, yet researchers rarely examine the nature and efficacy of this extensive…