Screen LibraryHandbook of local government fiscal health /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 555 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780763792305 (pbk.) : 0763792306 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | HJ9145 |
| CLC: | F817.127 |
| Call Number: | F817.127/H236 |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Introduction -- Fiscal health and sustainability concepts and measures -- Assessing the financial condition of local governments : what is financial condition and how is it measured? -- Local government fiscal stress and its measurement in theory and practice -- Financial reporting and modeling -- The development of external financial reporting and its relationship to the assessment of fiscal health and stress -- Long-term financial forecasting and modeling for local governments -- Pensions/opeb issues -- Postemployment benefits and fiscal analysis -- Sustainable approaches to retiree benefits : options and implementation for program design and financing -- Revenue elasticity and adequacy -- Public-finance and fiscal-federalism perspectives on local government revenue bases and fiscal sustainability -- Understanding and measuring revenue elasticity, volatility, and implications for local government fiscal health -- Business cycle, bubbles, and reserve funds : cutback management for the 21st century -- Fiscal stress and cutback management amongst state and local governments : what have we learned and what remains to be learned? -- A framework for deciphering and managing the fiscal environment -- Fiscal slack, reserves, and rainy-day funds -- Managing investments and investment risks -- State oversight practices, including detailed case studies of exemplars -- An intergovernmental perspective on local government fiscal health -- Monitoring the fiscal health of America's cities -- Measuring the impacts of TELs on municipal financial conditions -- The defragmentation of authority : a consolidation approach to public service delivery -- Debt capacity, management and policy -- Measuring and monitoring debt capacity and affordability : market- and nonmarket-based models -- State fiscal constraints on local government borrowing : effects on scale and cost -- Good debt, gone bad : the 2008-09 crisis in municipal debt markets -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Index. |