Rising fuel subsidies have contributed to fiscal pressures in India. A key policy concern regarding subsidy reform is … implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of … households receiving seven times more in benefits than the poorest ten percent. Although subsidy reform would generate …

Three years after the onset of the global financial crisis, much has been done to reform the global financial system …, but there is much left to accomplish. The regulatory reform agenda agreed by G-20 leaders in 2009 has elevated the … rules. Comprehensive reform, once agreed and implemented in full, will have far-reaching implications for the global …

supported by available data?that institutional reform is also likely to be very slow in developing countries since the budget is …, multiannual PFM reform strategies, which have been strongly promoted by the donor community; and advocates a simpler approach …

measurement of the public financial management performance indicators shows that progress has been insignificant. Reform programs …

The Czech Republic has embarked on an ambitious tax reform and expenditure package to bring the deficit sustainably … due to population aging, pension reform proposals are also being considered. In this paper we assess the macroeconomic … effects of these measures using the Global Fiscal Model. The tax reform package will achieve a more efficient tax system. If …

This report focuses on IMF Technical Assistance Evaluation—Public Expenditure Management (PEM) Reform in Selected …