Modernizing municipal finance of the Kaliningrad oblast: performance-based approach and regional development

Modernizing municipal finance of the Kaliningrad oblast: performance-based approach and regional development. - M: MAX Press, 2007. - 192 p. ISBN 978-5-317-02003-3

Key materials prepared by experts of the project «Reforming Municipal Finance of the Kaliningrad Oblast through Performance Budgeting» in 2005-2006 are presented in this collection as articles. The works characterize the problems in the management of the budget process at the local government level in the Kaliningrad Oblast and the tendencies of modernization of this process in the context of administrative and budget reforms in the Russian Federation and of the policy of the oblast authorities. The background and contemporary application of the methods of performance budgeting in Swedish municipalities are described as an example for comparison with European practices. The authors devote particular attention to the relationship between performance-based budget management and strategic regional development planning.

The publication is intended for practitioners, experts in regional studies, faculty and students of higher educational institutions and may be used in the study of the methods of municipal management, the economics of public finance and regional economic studies in the Russian Federation.

Original location of the publication: EastWest Institute