The purpose of this document is to provide a comparative analysis of Latin-American government finance statistics including public expenditures, income, overall balances, and debt stocks. The paper explores some of the problems that arise in country comparisons and in regional harmonization of...

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 23rd and 24th, 2005. OECD's Senior Budget Officials Network. How it has grown over the past 25 years. The insularity of budget...

This presentation covers fiscal operations; examples of creative indicators such as structural balance and the new accounting framework in Chile, the public debt in Brazil and traditional balance and public private partnerships in Mexico. Also covered are indicators of "quality" of public...

This document was presented at the Central America Sub regional Meeting of the Public Management and Transparency Network for the Regional Policy Dialogue, celebrated on May 23 and May 24, 2005 in San José, Costa Rica. This presentation contains a discussion of The Budget Practices and...

This presentation discusses the contents of the current OECD/World Bank Database which consists of the following parts: 1) General Information; 2) Formulation;3) Budget Execution; 4) Accounting, Control & Monitoring Systems; 5) Budget Documentation & Performance Management; 6) Fiscal Relations...

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VI Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 23rd and 24th, 2005. OECD's Senior Budget Officials Network. How it has grown over the past 25 years. The insularity of budget...

The purpose of this document is to provide a comparative analysis of Latin-American government finance statistics including public expenditures, income, overall balances, and debt stocks. The paper explores some of the problems that arise in country comparisons and in regional harmonization of...

This presentation discusses the contents of the current OECD/World Bank Database which consists of the following parts: 1) General Information; 2) Formulation;3) Budget Execution; 4) Accounting, Control & Monitoring Systems; 5) Budget Documentation & Performance Management; 6) Fiscal Relations...

Pricing policy recommendations infrastructure services are based on two principles. One is that prices should cover the total cost of the service. The other is that cross subsidy schemes should be avoided. This technical paper explores the economic literature for rules on applying these...

This paper marshals substantial arguments and data to support the contention that improving the access of micro and small enterprises to financial services could have an important salutary impact on a country's income distribution. To demonstrate this, the paper shows first that many poor own or...