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.

Click on the icon to discover the Results and Indicators on Education or other available sectors

Sub-Topics:

Domestic accountability & transparency - Economic growth - Finance sector - Fiscal policy - Macroeconomy - Monetary institutions - Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) - Public finance management

Introduction to PEFA (Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment)

Florence Brosset Heckel updated the WIKI page | 24 October 2017

Practical Information The course is designed as a two-day course based upon full day sessions made up of four one and half hour modules. There shall be a lunch break and two coffee breaks each of the course days Prerequisite - Participants are required to have a good understanding of Public...

0 1 6 129

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Gender Responsive Budgeting: examples of implementation

Anastasiia Yermoshenko asked a Question | 24 October 2017

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) is a tool that aims at integrating gender perspectives in the revenue and expenditure side of PFM. It is an influential element of managerial activities related to development of budgets of different levels, which provides important information to specialists...

1 0 3 419

Group: Public Group on Gender
DRM - Module 1 - Opening and introduction to Domestic Revenue Mobilization

Florence Brosset Heckel updated the Document | 23 October 2017

2019_01_-_1_intro_-19dec.pptx 165.67 KB

This document is the first of 15 modules belonging to the methodological course: DRM - Domestic Revenue Mobilisation . Outline : 1. Goals of the training? 2. Improving DRM : Why and how 3. Introduction to DRM 4. DRM spectrum 5. International monitoring

0 0 743 166

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Strategically financing an effective role for the EU in the world

Valeria Pintus uploaded a new Document | 4 October 2017

mff-2020-european_union-september_2017-ecdpm.pdf 990.16 KB

This paper provides a first set of reflections on how to strategically finance an effective role for the European Union in the world beyond 2020, when the current multiannual financial framework will be replaced by a new one. ECDPM experts look at the broader global and European context and how...

0 0 301 344

Group: Political Economy in Practice
Strategically financing an effective role for the EU in the world

Valeria Pintus uploaded a new Document | 4 October 2017

mff-2020-european_union-september_2017-ecdpm.pdf 990.16 KB

This paper provides a first set of reflections on how to strategically finance an effective role for the European Union in the world beyond 2020, when the current multiannual financial framework will be replaced by a new one. ECDPM experts look at the broader global and European context and how...

0 0 183 105

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Review of the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries: Proposed Reforms (IMF)

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 2 October 2017

Check it out at http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Policy-Papers/Issues/2017/10/02/pp082... .

1 0 265

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)—Statistical Update (IMF)

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 18 September 2017

The HIPC Initiative and MDRI are nearly complete, with 36 countries having reached the completion point under the HIPC Initiative. Debt relief under the Initiative has alleviated debt burdens substantially in recipient countries and has enabled them to increase their poverty-reducing expenditure by...

1 0 2 443

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Medium-Term Budget Frameworks in Sub-Saharan African Countries (IMF Working Paper)

Xavier LE MOUNIER posted Information | 12 September 2017

More than 15 years ago, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa embarked on a program of budgetary reform, an important element of which was a medium-term budget framework (MTBF). This working paper focuses on the performance of these frameworks in six countries–– Kenya, Namibia, South Africa,...

1 0 671

Group: Economics, public finance, domestic revenue mobilisation & budget support
Public hearing "Security developments in the post-Soviet space, particularly in Ukraine and Belarus"

Matteo N created a new event | 4 September 2017

04 Sep

From 4 September 2017
in (Belgium)

Organised by EU Parliament

Public hearing "Security developments in the post-Soviet space, particularly in Ukraine and Belarus" Today, the EU subcommittee on Security and Defence will examine the continued fragile security situation in Eastern Europe and the resurgence of Russian power politics. Also, the subcommittee, in...

0 0 308

Group: Europe's Digital Agenda for Development
1.2 What is the contribution of the value chain to economic growth?

Olimpia Orlandoni updated the WIKI page | 1 September 2017

The economic analysis aims at measuring and interpreting the profitability and sustainability of the value chain operations for all the actors directly involved. Its purpose is to inform on the economic effects of the value chain within the national economy in terms of growth generation and...

0 0 1 830

Project: Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D)

Experts

View more items

Economics & Public Finance

Sub-Topics:

Relevant Groups

Relevant Articles

Experts