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Budgeting for outcomes: delivering results citizens value at a price they are willing to pay.
Native Americans have many sayings, and one of the wisest is this: When you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Traditional budgeting, which focuses on costs rather than results, is the dead horse of the public sector. When we budget for costs, we get more of them. What we don't get is the innovation and accountability for results we need if we are to win the competition for public support.
Winning back the public support we have lost over the past 40 years is the greatest challenge we face in government today. Yet when faced with deficits, many governments resort to politically expedient budget and accounting practices that only deepen ...
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