This report focuses on the principles presiding over the implementation of the LOLF, which, the authors note, is part of a movement towards ‘the substitution of managerial functioning for legal functioning’ based on two major principles: the improvement of public sector management and...

We assess the nature of the European sovereign crisis in the light of a model borrowed from the second generation of currency crises. We bring the theory to the data to empirically test the presence of self-fulfilling dynamics and to identify what may have driven the market sentiment during this...

Since 1997, governments of Burkina Faso and Mali have decided to introduce results-oriented programme budgeting alongside the traditional state budget. This reform was implemented with insufficient coordination with others reforms in progress: Public Expenditure Review (PER), Sector- Wide...