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Corruption in East Africa (a US perspective)
Introduction The United States State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (“country reports”) strive to provide a factual and objective record on the status of human rights worldwide. The 2021 country reports were published on 12 April 2022. Section 4 of the country reports provides an assessment of Corruption and Lack of Transparency in…
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East Africa PFM digital transparency recent trends
Introduction Transparency of public finances is a key element of a public financial management (PFM) system enabling public scrutiny of government actions and intentions. From our September 2020 “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation we now examine recent trends in East Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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Book Review –“ Public Finance and Economic Growth in Developing Countries”
Review by David Fellows of: ‘Public Finance and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Ethiopia’s reforms’ by Stephen B Peterson PhD, Professor of Public Finance, Melbourne School of Government, Published by Routledge This is a remarkable book. It has the ring of coruscating honesty which is unique in my experience of case-based literature that…
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Doing Business 2015 Sub-Saharan Africa
Read Doing Business 2015 Sub-Saharan Africa Read the Doing Business 2015 regional profile for Sub-Saharan Africa. Learn how easy or difficult it is for local entrepreneurs to establish and run small to medium-size businesses when complying with relevant regulations. The quality of public financial management (PFM) in business regulatory agencies inevitably impacts on their operational…
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Trends in African finance ministries’ social media usage
We have prepared a SlideShare presentation that highlights the response levels achieved recently by African finance ministries in their social media activities. You can view the presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/johnleo/african-finance-ministries-social-media-and-public-financial-managementAfrican finance ministries, social media and public financial management. This supplements the material presented in our recent blog. African-finance-ministries-social-media-and-public-financial-management
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African Finance Ministries, Social Media and Public Financial Management
Posted by David Fellows and John Leonardo[1] What contribution does the Social Media have to make to improving public financial management (PFM) and fiscal transparency? In a recent study, we found that 26 of the 34 OECD states had Twitter sites and 18 had a Facebook presence.[2] Further work on African countries revealed that 11…