May 05, 2016
May 2016 | by Paolo de Renzio, International Budget Partnership with support of the Sector Program on Good Financial Governance
Past efforts at promoting public finance management reforms have
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Jul 26, 2019
July 2019 | By Carlene van der Westhuizen with Teboho Tsietsi and Albert van Zyl, International Budget Partnership South Africa
This edition of Metro Budget Notes reviews the South African
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Nov 19, 2013
In 2004, the Government of Indonesia established the first milestone toward universal coverage of social insurance as part of government’s obligation as mandated by the constitution to provide protection and
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May 04, 2003
Prepared for the 11th Anti-Corruption Conference, which took place in South Korea in May 2003, this paper introduces PSAM’s Performance Monitoring Project, which compiles information on the performance of the
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Aug 26, 2013
By Alta Fölscher (Mokoro, Ltd.) and John Kruger (Oxford Policy Management).
The Eastern Cape Province of South Africa struggles with high poverty, poor public infrastructure, and dysfunctional administrative systems. One
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Dec 14, 2020
This case examines efforts to introduce higher income taxes on the wealthy by different civil society coalitions in three U.S. states. In each state, organizations that were part of a
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Feb 19, 2008
This case study looks at how the Civil Society Coalition for Quality Basic Education in Malawi uses public expenditure tracking surveys to measure the quality of education and the extent
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Oct 28, 2015
The 2010 Constitution of Kenya and the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 (PFM Act) significantly altered the roles that Parliament and the National Treasury should be playing in Kenya’s
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Jan 24, 2004
This brief paper reflects on the voices of the poor in the budget formulation and execution stages through a pre-budget statement. It looks at the current levels of poverty in
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Aug 26, 2013
By Almudena Ocejo (Centro de Contraloría Social y Estudios de la Construcción Democrática).
When it comes to health care in Mexico, “universal” has never meant equal, particularly when it came
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