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Article: Thailand: municipal finance reform and training. (International Horizons)
- Article from:
- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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The Government Finance Officers Association has been in the forefront of municipal finance reform since its inception in 1906. Recently, it has become instrumental in assisting local government finance reform in the country of Thailand, as well.
The history of government in Thailand is quite the reverse of the American experience. In the United States, government began as local agreements covering the extent of a village. As settlements were amalgamated into colonies, the strong character of local decision making remained. The revolutionary war established that the 13 colonies were not part of the British Empire, but it took more than a decade of experimentation to ...
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