Innovations in Financing Public Services Country Case Studies [Hardcover]

This book?explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing. It includes case studies taken from the Nordic countries, UK, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and South Korea.Innovative Public Finance: Definition, Practice and Context; P.Valkama, A-V.Anttiroiko & S.J.Bailey Beyond PFI: Procurement of Public Sector Infrastructure and the Evolving Plurality of Methods in the UK; D.Asenova, M.Beck & S.J.Bailey Innovations in Private Sector Provision of Infrastructure in South Korea; S-T.Kim The Distinctive Financing of Road Infrastructures in Spain: Evolution and Innovation; B.Acerete Public Private Partnerships in Slovenia: Reverse Financial Innovations Enhancing the Public Role; N.Hrovatin Local Government Funding Agencies: Lessons from Success and Failure; N.Anderson, S.J.Bailey & H.Pautz Innovation in Local Government Risk Financing: Lessons from the UK and Nordic Experiences; J.Hood, B.Stein & P.Valkama Innovations in Financing Higher Education in Slovakia; M.Beblav?, P.Mederly & ?E.Si??kov?-Beblav? Innovation in the Turkish Budgetary System: Recent Developments in Public Governance; H.Kirmanoglu & P.Akkoyunlu Co-Payments: Innovations in the Balance between Public and Private Finance; S.J.Bailey Vouchers as Innovative Funding of Public Services; P.Valkama, S.Bailey & I.C.Elliott Public Service Vouchers in the UK and Finland; I.C. Elliott, P.Valkama & S.J.BaileyBASILIO ACERETE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Zaragoza, SpainPINAR AKKOYUNLU is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Finance at Istanbul University, TurkeyNICHOLAS ANDERSON is Senior Vice-President at the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK)DARINKA ASENOVA is Reader in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Risk at Glasgow Caledonian University, UKMIROSLAV BEBLAV? il“+