This paper considers various ways of securing and retaining additional resources for social development: in many cases (but not all) with the help of joint international action. Beside outlining methods for increasing public revenue available, it considers the acquisition of resources through financial intermediation and community mobilization and through incentives to commercial enterprise for appropriate research, and also explores how the erosion of existing sources of public finance can be resisted and the use of public resources may be more effectively secured for social development through tying revenue to outlay, or at least to the relevant level of government, and through fiscal stabilization.

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