Expenditure Patterns in State Budgets-An Exploratory Survey

An Exploratory Survey N Vijay Jagannathan While fiscal planners have mainly concerned themselves with devising strategies to optimise resource mobilisa- tion, the actual pattern of expenditure is obviously of equal importance for developmental planning. Through an exploratory study of six states with roughly comparable populations and widely divergent patterns of economic development, the author proposes to show that the existing procedures for accounting expenditures are unable to clearly specify the actual patterns of resource use.