About: Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting

WorkingGroup on Public Sector Finance and Accounting has been formally established at the 9^th NISPAcee Annual Conference in Riga, Latvia (May, 2001).

The Working Group on Public Sector Finance and Accounting was transformed into the new Working Group on Fiscal Policy with the new leadership and new focus for the next period.

• Enhancing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity: A Way of Reaching More Accountable Local Government (Research Protocol 2002)

• Grant Transfers and Financial Supervision in Central and Eastern European Countries (Research Protocol 2003)
• User Charges and Fees: Financing Local Services – Do Local Governments Really Cover the Costs? (Research Protocol 2004)
• Strengthening Public Finance Accountability in Emerging Economies: Parliaments and Budgeting Process in CEE and CIS Countries (Research Protocol 2005)
• Managing local public debt in the countries in transition: An issue of fiscal capacity or somethings Else? (Research Protocol 2006)
  
  
• The Burning Issue in Local Government Finance in a ‘Named’ Country (Research Protocol 2007)
  
• Property Taxation in CEE and CIS countries (Research Protocol 2008)
  
• Municipal Asset Management in CEE and CIS countries (Research Protocol 2009)
  
• Local Government Finance in the Times of Crisis: How to Respond? (Research Protocol 2010)