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The Gambia Public Financial Management Profile
Introduction This note presents a series of charts which provide an overview of the Gambia’s recent public financial management (PFM) performance based on this country’s 2015 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment. Comparisons are made between Gambia’s performance and the performance of the other twenty-three countries that had PEFA assessments published in 2014-2015. All…
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Ghana Public Financial Management Profile
Introduction This note presents a series of charts which provide an overview of Ghana’s recent public financial management (PFM) performance based on this country’s 2013 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment. Comparisons are made between Ghana’s performance and the performance of the other twenty-three countries that had PEFA assessments published in 2014-2015. All analyses…
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Samoa Public Financial Management Profile
Introduction This note presents a series of charts which provide an overview of Samoa’s recent public financial management (PFM) performance based on this country’s 2014 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment. Comparisons are made between Samoa’s performance and the performance of the other twenty-three countries that had PEFA assessments published in 2014-2015. All analyses…
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Anguilla Public Financial Management Profile
Introduction This note presents a series of charts which provide an overview of Anguilla’s recent public financial management (PFM) performance based on this country’s 2014 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment. Comparisons are made between Anguilla’s performance and the performance of the other twenty-three countries that had PEFA assessments published in 2014-2015. All analyses…
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Trend in Papua New Guinea’s public financial management
SlideShare presentation We have prepared a SlideShare presentation that discusses the desperate state of Papua New Guinea’s public financial management (PFM). The presentation highlights a deteriorating trend in the country’s PFM over recent years and its very poor recent performance compared with most other countries based on Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment methodology.…
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Papua New Guinea’s poor and deteriorating financial management: can it be turned around?
By David Fellows and John Leonardo[1] Background on Papua New Guinea (PNG) Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a lower-middle-income economy heavily dependent upon commodity exports. It has an extremely diverse social structure with fierce clan loyalties, characteristics that provide severe challenges to the effective working of government that have not yet been successfully addressed.[2] [3]The…
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The need to improve the PEFA methodology
We have prepared a SlideShare presentation that recommends improvements to the current Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) methodology for assessing public financial management. You can view the presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/johnleo/the-need-for-improvement-in-public-expenditure-and-financial-accountability-pefa-assessment-methodology. This presentation supplements the material presented in our recent blog at: Proposals for PEFA reform.
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Proposals for PEFA reform
Posted by David Fellows and John Leonardo1 The problem Failings in public financial management span the breadth of the Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) scores. Our work suggests that numerous…