Full Description
This edited book provides a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the public sector's role in building economic and social resilience. It focuses on how public finance and economic policy can best support countries' ability to absorb emerging shocks as well as adapt to evolving circumstances.
The experiences of recent years, including multiple fiscal crises and the global pandemic, have shown that most economies are not prepared for rapidly changing conditions where uncertainty is a recurring theme. At the same time, social trust in public institutions has been eroding globally. Through a variety of perspectives, such as the role of taxation, social safety nets, public sector employment, public budgeting, and urban development, the book critically assesses existing weaknesses in the public sector and identifies solutions to foster resilience against future uncertainty. Against a political and economic context of increasing inequality and instability, the chapters demonstrate how public finance can help create the conditions for a stronger economy that supports economic stability and the labour market, encourages infrastructure and innovation, and promotes public health and environmental protection. This book is a fascinating read for academics in public finance, accounting, welfare economics, and labour economics, as well as professionals working in the spheres of public policy and governance.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Navigating the Landscape of Social and Economic Resilience.- Chapter 2. The Detrimental Impact of Political Budget Cycles on the Greek Economy.- Chapter 3. Cash flow statements for General Government of Greece from 2025: Answers to long-term queries.- Chapter 4. Reducing Public Funds Reliance in Olympic Bids: The Agenda 2020 Approach.- Chapter 5. The role of public sector wage rates in the determination of labour share.- Chapter 6. Building resilience in the public sector through risk assessment, activity based budgeting and performance audit.- Chapter 7. Public Budgeting: an amoeba of public policies.- Chapter 8. Greening Human Capital: A Catalyst for Organizational and Environmental Resilience.- Chapter 9. Enhancing Social and Economic Resilience for a Changing World: The Strategic Role of Continuous Training and Capacity Building in Contemporary Tax and Customs Administrations.- Chapter 10. Development of state infrastructure with the involvement of the private sector.- Chapter 11. A methodology for improving the resilience of the public sector through job satisfaction.- Chapter 12. Fortifying Economic Foundations: Cybersecurity Imperatives for a Resilient Financial System.- Chapter 13. Innovation districts as a model of sustainable urban economic development.- Chapter 14. The Implementation of Strategic Planning in Public Organizations in Greece: The case of e-EFKA.- Chapter 15. Impact of cost accounting models on estimations in adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and on reimbursement system: A case study of a public hospital during the covid-19 pandemic.
