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West 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 West Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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Recent Africa PFM digital transparency trends
Introduction Recent African PFM digital transparency trends were identified in our September 2020 “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation which examined the current use of digital platforms to promote PFM transparency in 45 African ministries of finance (MoFs) current use of digital platforms to promote PFM transparency. We now introduce some key…
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Southern 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 Southern Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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North 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 North Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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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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Central 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 Central Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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Note: Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries
by John Leonardo Introduction This note provides an introduction to our “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation which is also available as a video. Transparency of public finances is a key element of a public financial management (PFM) system enabling public scrutiny of government actions and intentions. Transparency of public finances is…
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Developing Systems to Combat Corruption
Posted by David Fellows[1] Introducing the concept of “objective data” In March 2018, we republished a short note on the use of objective data to combat corruption [2]. The piece highlighted statistical techniques being used in western countries to identify corruption by correlating unorthodox procurement practices with aberrant supplier behaviour established from factually based ‘objective’ administrative…
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Forthcoming blog: Developing Systems to Combat Corruption
In a March 2018 blog PFMConnect co-principal David Fellows discussed the deficiencies surrounding corruption perception indices and outlined how objective data analysis could offer a clearer insight into the systemic nature of corrupt behaviour, thus providing a more precise indication of the corrupt parts of an administration, the number of external parties that are engaged…
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Videos addressing good public financial management
We have commenced the publishing of videos about aspects of our work associated with supporting good public financial management. We list below the videos available to-date: Small island developing states need improvements in their digital communication infrastructure to help them recover from COVID-19. We have set out four collaboration approaches for SIDS and their stakeholders to consider actioning in…