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Home > Budget / Taxes , Capitol Report , Top Story > State weighs short-term borrowing State weighs short-term borrowing by Charley Shaw Published: December 18,2009 Time posted: 1:25 pm Tags: James Metzen , Jim Schowalter , Larry Pogemiller , Lyndon Carlson , Margaret Anderson Kelliher , Minnesota budget deficit , Minnesota Department of Management and Budget , Tom Hanson Minnesota Management and Budget ...
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Performance Reporting . . . by Richard Boyle Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on the reporting of the outputs and outcomes of government programs. Yet there is limited information on what outputs and outcomes are actually reported on in practice. A new report by Richard Boyle, Head of Research for the Institute of Public Administration in Dublin, Ireland, finds that there is surprisingly little information on the nature and ...
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