The objective of this paper is to examine empirically the nature and extent of budget transparency in resource-dependent countries, as a potential foundation for improving governance and development impact. The resource curse hypothesis claims that resource-dependent countries, despite their...

Long-term fiscal projections provide a basis to discuss the sustainability of current public policies over an extended period (ten years or more) against select fiscal indicator(s). They do so by modelling future government expenditures and revenues based upon a number of explicit demographic,...

At the time of this review, fiscal policy in Latvia was in considerable turmoil as a consequence of the world-wide financial crisis. Thus, some of the usual budget rules and procedures were not followed during budget preparation 2009 and 2010 and budget execution 2009. This review examines the...