Recent fiscal performance and perspectives : major recipients of A.I.D.

recipients. A principal theme is that donor concern with increasing public revenues, while generally warranted in the past, has resulted in insufficient attention to other aspects of public finance; e.g., quality of expenditure, the equity problem (equitable distribution of income), efficiency of public enterprise, fiscal side-effects. In the 1970s, in one form or another, it is likely that these will become major issues. The Study draws attention to them in a country context. In the study itself, Part I is a more developed and expanded version of the material used in the Administrator"s Review of Development Performance, 1970. Part II is entirely new material. (Author abstract)