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Contributors
Work, Activity-Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide, Activity-Based
Cost Management in Government, and Performance Management: Finding the
Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap.
ALTA FÖLSCHER is an independent researcher and consultant. She has worked
in Africa; Southeast, South, and Central Asia; the Balkan states and Eastern
Europe; the Middle East; and the Caribbean on public finance and public
policy. Her areas of work include governance, public accountability, and fiscal
transparency; public expenditure and financial management; pro-poor
expenditure analysis, forecasting, and costing; and education financing. She
has published several papers and edited three books on public finance management
in Africa. In recent years, she has coedited books on economic
transformation in South Africa. She has a master’s degree in public policy
and management from the University of London.
STEPHEN B. PETERSON is a lecturer in public policy and directs the executive
program in public financial management at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University. For more than 20 years, he has advised
governments in transitional and developing countries in public finance.
For the past 10 years, he has directed an integrated financial management
reform program in Ethiopia. He is the author and coauthor of several
books and numerous articles on public financial management, public
management, and fiscal decentralization. He holds a doctorate from the
University of California at Berkeley and an MBA in finance from the
University of California at Los Angeles.
A. PREMCHAND is a former assistant director at the International Monetary
Fund. Since retirement, he has worked as a consultant with the Asian Development
Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations, the John F. Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University, the Andrew Young Center for
Public Policy at Georgia State University, and the National Institute of Public
Finance and Policy in New Delhi. He has published 12 books, 30 book
chapters, and 70 papers. Many of his books and papers have been translated
into Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.
SALVATORE SCHIAVO-CAMPO has held senior positions at the World Bank, Asian
Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, and U.S. Agency for
International Development. He now works as an independent international
consultant. He has also been a professor and chairman of the Department
of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has taught at