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    Budgeting during austerity: Approaches, instruments and practices

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    The recent global financial and economic crises, followed by fiscal crisis, have led many governments in Europe to adopt austerity measures in order to cope with the concurrent problems of lower revenues and high public debt. It can be expected that the need to undertake large-scale cutbacks would lead to changes in budgeting practices, budgetary institutions and modes of fiscal governance. Based on the existing literature on fiscal governance and budgeting, it can be conjectured that in response to fiscal stress, the following shifts have taken (or are taking) place in fiscal governance and budgetary institutions: movement from decentralized and bottom-up modes of budget preparation to centralized and top-down modes, adoption of numerical fiscal rules, and the revival of the 'more rational' budgetary decision-making techniques (e.g., performance-based budgeting, results-based budgeting, etc.)

    Resposta da Estônia à pandemia da COVID-19: aprendizagem, cooperação e as vantagens de ser um país pequeno

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    Compared to many other countries in Europe, Estonia managed to curtail the spread of the new coronavirus rather effectively. This paper offers an overview of the measures undertaken to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in March-May 2020 and explain why Estonia managed to successfully contain the epidemic. The paper argues that the management of the crisis was facilitated by political factors, quick policy learning, cooperation with the scientific community, and the existing ICT and e-government infrastructure.Comparada con otros países de Europa, Estonia ha logrado restringir la propagación del coronavirus relativamente bien. Este artículo se propone brindar una visión general de las medidas tomadas entre marzo y mayo del 2020 para enfrentar la crisis de la COVID-19 y explicar por qué Estonia logró contener la epidemia. El artículo argumenta que el manejo de la crisis fue facilitado por factores políticos, por el rápido aprendizaje sobre políticas públicas, por la cooperación con la comunidad científica, y por la infraestructura de tecnologías de comunicación e información y gobierno digital.Em comparação com outros países europeus, a Estônia conseguiu reduzir a disseminação do coronavírus de maneira bastante eficaz. Este artigo busca dar uma visão geral das medidas tomadas para enfrentar a crise da COVID-19 entre os meses de março e maio de 2020 e explicar por que a Estônia conseguiu conter a epidemia com sucesso. O artigo argumenta que a gestão da crise foi facilitada por fatores políticos, pela rapidez na aprendizagem de políticas públicas, pela cooperação com a comunidade científica e pela infraestrutura existente de TIC e governo eletrônico
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