This study shows how difficult it is for Niger to significantly change its expenditure composition in a short time span. A narrow and volatile domestic resource base, heavy dependence on aid, and a large share of pre-determined expenditures such as external debt payments are important factors...

Zambia's economy is not growing fast. Poverty is on the rise. The quality of economic governance is on the decline. And public resources are not well spent. The badly needed first steps to reverse all this are to start getting the budgetary allocations right and to make sure those allocations go...

The public financial management (PFM) performance assessment in Mali covered all central government revenues and expenditures and the institutions responsible for their management. This means that the assessment covered central government ministries and institutions, along with their de...

The public financial management (PFM) performance assessment in Mali covered all central government revenues and expenditures and the institutions responsible for their management. This means that the assessment covered central government ministries and institutions, along with their de...

This Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Assessment applies the PEFA framework and methodology to provide a snapshot of the current status of the federal government's public financial management (PFM) system. The report makes no recommendations on policy matters it is...

The World Bank, with funding from Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and in partnership with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) as its primary counterpart, has conducted an independent assessment of the Philippines' public financial management (PFM) system. The...

The budget analysis section constitutes the 'core analyses of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Review (PEFAR) 2009 report. The rapid budget analysis 2009 and the budget execution analysis 2009 are two key inputs into the report's core analysis. The report presents an overview...

The purpose of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment is to provide the Government of Lao PDR (GOL) with a concise, standardized, objective, indicator-led assessment of the country's public financial management (PFM) systems to provide a benchmark against which to...

The 2008 Public Expenditure Management and Financial Accountability Review (PEMFAR) assess Liberia's public expenditure performance along four main dimensions: macroeconomic, institutional, allocations between sectors, and allocations within key sectors. At the macroeconomic level, it describes...

The Government of Thailand has been undertaking wide ranging public financial management reforms since 1999 across the six core dimensions of Public Financial Management (PFM) performance identified in the performance measurement framework. Key reforms include: (i) the deployment of an...