Many emerging market economies are trying to improve their budget processes and move to performance-based budgeting. This paper first reviews the evolution of the "new" performance budgeting model, increasingly being applied in industrial countries. By identifying its main components, the tasks...

This paper documents the main elements of the new budget system established in the Russian Federation through its revised budget system law, or the Budget Code, of 2000. It critically examines the budget preparation, budget approval, and budget execution processes, as well as the financial...

One of the major challenges faced by transitional economies has been to adjust institutions that were designed to function in a planning environment to function in an increasingly market-oriented environment. One of the most important of these institutional reforms has been the restructuring of...

The 1990s witnessed the unprecedented restructuring of a large number of formerly interconnected centrally planned economies into market-based systems. These reforms were fundamental, affecting all sectors of the economy and all segments of the population.

In the past decade, developing countries have been encouraged to reform their public expenditure management systems and have increasingly embarked on major projects to computerise their government operations. Most popular among these have been projects to computerise government accounting and...

Les économies en transition sont confrontées à des défis de taille. Elles doivent notamment adapter des institutions créées dans l’optique de la planification centrale à un contexte de plus en plus soumis aux lois du marché. La restructuration du système budgétaire compte parmi les...

Les années 90 ont été marquées par la transformation sans précédent d’un grand nombre d’économies interconnectées à planification centrale en économies de marché.

This paper reviews the role of accounting in budget system reform from the perspective of emerging economies who wish to adopt the OECD's performance budgeting reforms. While many OECD countries, pursuing the reforms associated with the New Public Management, have moved their accounting systems...