Climate change and sustainable futures (2009)
The paper explores the challenges posed by climate change and proposes an approach to mobilizing a social response that encourages creative, constructive interventions to shape the market.
Scotland’s social services spending needs: an English view (2007)
King, David (David N.), Pashley, Matthew, Ball, Rob
Scottish citizens enjoy 25% more spending per head on public services than English citizens, but almost nothing is known about the countries’ relative needs and hence about how far this gap is...
The Private Finance Initiative in the UK: A value for money and economic analysis (2007)
Ball, Rob, Heafey, Maryanne, King, Dave
The UK's Private Finance Initiative now involves billions of pounds' worth of capital investment in the public sector. Achievement of value for money is, therefore, a very important consideration....
The environmental spending needs of Scotland’s local authorities (2007)
King, David (David N.), Pashley, Matthew, Ball, Rob
Scottish citizens benefit from 19% more public spending per head than English citizens. The ‘Barnett formula’ is slowly reducing the gap, but very little is known about the countries’ relative...
THE PRIVATE FINANCE INITIATIVE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
"This paper distinguishes between the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and the more general Public Private Partnerships (PPP). It traces the growth of the initiative since its start in 1992 to the...
An English assessment of Scotland’s education spending needs
David King, Matthew Pashley, Rob Ball
Scotland has much higher public expenditure per head than England, but little work has been done to compare Scottish and English needs. We compare their needs for school education, and we show that...
The Private Finance Initiative and public sector finance
Rob Ball, Maryanne Heafey, David King
Traditionally, when the public sector wanted more capital assets, it borrowed funds for the purpose. Under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), private consortia borrow funds to build assets and...
Scotland’s social services spending needs: an English view
David King, Matthew Pashley, Rob Ball
Scottish citizens enjoy 25% more spending per head on public services than English citizens, but almost nothing is known about the countries’ relative needs and hence about how far this gap is...