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Reflections on government and COVID19: expertise, the role of government, the new public work, social imagination and beating the binary #3

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

In other words, we either spruik the benefits of the neo-liberal, new public management framework of the past 40 years or advocate and even in some cases warmly predict the return of “socialism” or “big” government. Might the choice palette be more appetising than that sterile binary?

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One Working Capital Management Strategic Tool: Interfund Transfers

Death and Taxes

For example, a public manager can use interfund transfers to move money from the General Fund, the primary fund used for government activity, to a Capital Project Fund to help pay for the construction of a new government administrative building.