NISPAcee

"East and West Public Administration: 20 Years of Development" Conference

   The Institute took part in the ‘20th Annual East and West Public Administration: 20 Years of Development’ conference held in Ohrid, the Republic of Macedonia, on May 23-26, 2012. The event was arranged by the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) in cooperation with St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia. IBSER joined NISPAcee activities aimed at public administration improvement, particularly in the public finance area, in 2007.
This year the NISPAcee conference focused on consideration of the past and analysis of the future development of administrative and fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
  The conference program included a number of general sessions, working meetings on the conference main topic, expert groups meetings, forums and specialized working groups divided by topics and focused on working upon specific issues of public administration.
   The conference participants discussed the impact of the economic crisis on public finances and strength of fiscal policy by the example of European countries and the experience in the area of performance program budgeting implementation. They considered the changes that have occurred in fiscal policy over recent years and the consequences thereof in different countries, in particular, evolution of the real estate tax in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as the development, current situation and problems of the Republic of Moldova tax system. Moreover the participants raised a set of questions about local budgets, more specifically, regarding the Hungarian experience of borrowing by local governments and the degree of decentralization and changes in expenditure priorities of local budgets in Poland.

More about conference you can find out here.