The note reviews the potential of public expenditure reviews as objective analysis of a country's public spending issues, and in advancing the development agenda in the Bank's client countries. It examines the experiences with these reviews, setting the approach for improving them, finding that:...

The main objective of this fiscal note is to assist the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) in meeting the challenges mentioned above. To this end, it provides input into the state's rolling medium-term fiscal framework exercise. The new Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) act...

This paper studies the links between public spending, governance, and outcomes. We examine the role of governance-measured by the level of corruption and the quality of bureaucracy-in determining the efficacy of public spending in improving human development outcomes. Our analysis contributes to...