Economics & Public Finance

The economics, public finance and budget support topic page covers issues such as macroeconomic stability, fiscal policy, economic growth, public debt, public finance management (including procurement), financial accountability as well as their practical implications for development programmes, in particular budget support operations but also technical cooperation projects.

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Romeo (n.d): Decentralizing for Development: the developmental potential of local autonomy and the limits of politics-‐driven decentralization reforms

Herrero Alisa uploaded a new Document | 18 July 2012

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This paper points at the missing link between decentralization and local development in so many countries whose decentralization reforms are driven by political rather than developmental goals. It suggests that decentralization reforms in developing countries could be better designed, sustained,...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
Tommassi (2009) Strengthening Public Expenditure Management in Developing Countries: Sequencing Issues

Herrero Alisa updated the Document | 18 July 2012

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Efforts to strengthen and modernise Public Expenditure Management (PEM) in developing countries have been underway for decades, yet results have often proved disappointing. Many of the innovations currently being experimented with in developing countries risk joining a long-line of failures, warns...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
FYSON (2009) Sending in the consultants: development agencies, the private sector and the reform of public finance in low-income countries

Herrero Alisa updated the Document | 18 July 2012

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This paper offers a conceptual framework to understand the relationship between donors, governments and donor-funded consultants who come in to implement Public Finance Management Reforms. The paper explores the lines of accountability that are drown between these different set of actors. Ghana is...

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Group: Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
Making It, Issue 8: We Can Do It! November 2011

UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Organization uploaded a new Document | 9 July 2012

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‘Women hold up half the sky’ is a Chinese proverb affirming women’s equal contribution to the human experience but it is an aspirational, rather than a factual, claim. In developed and developing countries alike, gender gaps persist in education, health, work, wages and political participation. For...

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Group: UNIDO Brussels - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extending Budget Support to Civil Society - Part 1: An Example from South Africa

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 4 July 2012

How can Sector Budget Support embrace Civil Society and what can be achieved? How can such support offer an effective way to strengthen sector capacity and governance? In this first of a two-part series on capacity4dev.eu, Jozet Muller from the EU Delegation to South Africa shares her experience of...

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PPP Introduction to Domestic Accountability

Coralie Mugerin updated the Document | 24 May 2012

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Group: Public Group on Civil Society
Bart Robertson commented on information | 12 March 2012

Four Keys to Equitable Growth

These are all helpful, valid points; however, the process of land reform and rural-urban migration is not always so straight forward. To ensure optimal, equitable growth land reform must be managed appropriately. This means ensuring that cities possess adequate employment opportunities,...

Group: Myanmar Economy
Four Keys to Equitable Growth

ADAM MCCARTY posted Information | 12 March 2012

In 1955, Simon Kuznets, a development economist, presented a theory of the relationship between income inequality in a country and the path to becoming a rich developed country. He argued that income inequality increased in the early decades, when countries were “taking off” at catch-up rates of...

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Group: Myanmar Economy
Presentation of an Agenda for Change: EC Communications on Development Policy and on Budget Support

Paul RIEMBAULT updated the Article | 10 February 2012

The European Commission has published its Agenda for Change for increasing the impact of EU development policy as well as a Communication on the future of budget support. You can read it here.

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The EU Delegation to Zambia’s Experience of Using Political Economy Analysis

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 7 February 2012

Over the past couple of years a number of donor agencies have adopted Political Economy Analysis tools to assist development practice. The European Union Delegation to Zambia recently carried out two pilot political economy studies. Their experience provides lessons for developing an EC tool.

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