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IMF Article IV Report — Samoa (2024)
This IMF Article IV report provides an assessment of Samoa’s recent economic performance, outlook, and key public financial management issues. 👉 Click here to access the full report (PDF)
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Corruption in the Pacific (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. These are available for fifteen Pacific countries. Section 4 of the country reports provides an assessment…
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IMF Article IV reports SIDS countries S
The most recently published IMF Article IV reports for small island developing states (SIDS) beginning with the letter S as at 4 January 2024 are listed below. The reports can be accessed by clicking on to the respective countries. Samoa Sao Tome Seychelles Singapore Sint Maarten St Kitts and Nevis St Lucia St Vincent and…
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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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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…