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Bibliografía: páginas 325-356

Questions and answers: the literature of solutions -- Poverty and uncertainty -- The disappearing budget -- Budgeting from the top: the finance ministry, the executive, and the legislature -- Budgeting from the Below: the departments -- The challenge of planning -- The planners´ response -- Finance versus planning -- Planning is not the solution: it´s part of the problem -- Converting obstacles into opportunities

This substantial treatment of budgeting in poor countries and discus sion of the relationship between planning and budgeting covers over eighty rations and three-fourths of the world's population. While there are many treatments of plenning, the approach of this study is radically different. The authors argue that the requisites of com prehensive economic planning do not exist in poor countries, and that in the effort to create them, planners merge into the environment they have set out to change.
Caiden and Wildavsky provide a unique and thorough examina tion of planning and budgeting by governments of poor countries throughout the world, and recommend reforms that can be workable under the realistic conditions of those countries. They analyze the political, economic. and social developments that influence budget ing and plam.ing a developing countries.
Planning and Budgeting in Pour Countries will be of interest to teachers, studects and practitioners involved in administrative, po litical, and econt development. Pr.essional groups such politi cal scientista, pr blie administrators, and economists will want to make use of this study. It will provide them with a reatment of the subject that more comprehensive, operational, and rele. int to their concerns, whether these be to understand or to control panning and budgeting.
This book is well documented and in ludes a 31-page bibliography.... It is strongly r ommended to teuchers, students, and practitioners involved in planning and budgeting in poor countries. Choice
The book is prou cative in the best sense of that word, and its conclusions will be chastent, a to any economist concerned with plannin, who has not yet learned of the extreme perils of relying on a single-discipline approach to his subject. The Economic Journal