Social Objectives in Polish Fiscal Policy – Spending vs Performance

• Authors: Franek Sławomir
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Purpose: The organization of this article was subordinated to the connections between the government program documentation related to the state social objectives and their implementation at the budgetary level. The article shows the necessity of perceiving fiscal policy as an instrument toimplement government programming objectives. The aim of the article is to assess the degree of implementation of social objectives on the basis of information resulting from the experience gained in the area of performance budgeting in Poland.Methodology: To assess the scale of financing of social objectives in Poland in comparison with other European countries, the author used Eurostat data from COFOG (Classification of the Functions of Government). To assess the effectiveness of state operations related to the achievement of social objectives, the author used information from the implementation of the performance-oriented state budget. It was assumed that the performance-oriented system linking the clear structure of public expenditure with the objectives and measures assigned to them to assess the effectiveness of fiscalpolicy in particular areas of government intervention.Findings: The relations between individual strategic documents related to social objectives and performance-oriented budgetary structure are presented. The results indicate that the scale of financing of social tasks in Poland is at a lower level than the average for European countries. The author points out the functions related to the achievement of social objectives whose effectiveness could be improved.Originality: Using information from the implementation of the performance-oriented budget to compare the individual budget functions of social character on the basis of the evaluation of the degree to which the measures for these functions’ operations have been implemented.

Keywords

EN

public finance; performance budgeting; fiscal governance

• Publisher: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 74-88

Dates

published

2016-06-15

Contributors

author

Franek Sławomir

• University of Szczecin

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