Performance Budget in the United States

Performance Budget in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Performance Budget in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A presentation that links strategic goals with related long-term and annual performance goals and with the costs of specific activities that contribute to the achievement of those goals.

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See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Performance Budget)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)