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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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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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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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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…