This paper assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the French and British public expenditure management systems as used in Africa. The main differences are in budget execution and government accounting. In both francophone and anglophone Africa, there are common weaknesses in the...

Rwanda is making important choices concerning budget processes. A program-oriented budget framework is now used. A new Constitution, adopted in May 2003, has made some important choices concerning the public management system, including the balance of power between the executive and the...

Most western countries started to reform their public management in the eighties. These reform processes are known as New Public Management (NPM). Although, the depth and scope of the changes are not the same in all countries, they show common characteristics. This paper reviews such...

In recent years, many countries have sought to transform their fiscal frameworks, with the aim of rendering their public finances more sustainable and preventing the emergence of fiscal problems. This report presents the findings of comparative research into the fiscal frameworks of five...

According to tentative estimates of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the federal budget for January 2013 was executed with a deficit of 1.8% of GDP, while in the same period of the last year the federal budget was executed with a surplus of 0.7% of GDP. A significant difference in the results...

In 2012, federal budget revenues increased by 0.6 p.p. of GDP against the previous year. As per results of 11 months of 2012, revenues to the consolidated budget of the Subjects of the Russian Federation have decreased by 1.4 p.p. of GDP as compared with the same period of the last year. In...

Federal budget revenues in January-November of this year totaled to Rb 11406.8bn, or 20.5% of GDP, expenditures made Rb 10615.5bn, or 19.1% of GDP. In the past 11 months the federal budget was executed with a surplus of 1.4% of GDP. Meanwhile, the federal budget dynamics in the last three months...

According to the Federal Treasury, in January‐August 2012, federal budget revenues amounted to 22.0% of GDP, which is by 0.1 percentage points GDP higher than in the corresponding period of the last year. The federal budget expenditures over eight months of the year have increased by 1.0 p.p....

According to the Federal Treasury, federal budget revenues contracted 1.5 p.p. of GDP year-over-year in the period of January thru October 2013, including oil & gas revenues which dropped 0.9 p.p. of GDP. In the period of January thru September 2013 consolidated budget revenues of the...

Russia's Federal Treasury reports that in the period of January thru August 2013 federal budget revenues and expenditures contracted by 2.2 and 1.7 p.p. of GDP respectively, as compared to the corresponding period in 2012. At the end of eight months of 2013 the federal budget ran a surplus of Rb...