Budget support evaluation in Mali - OECD-DAC (led by the Commission)
The joint evaluation has covered 7 years (2003-2009) and 32 budget support operations (GBS and SBS, all development partners including the Commission).
The executive summary (7 pages) is attached and the full report is available on internet under:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/evaluation/evaluation_reports/2011/1290_docs_en.htm.
20 key questions on domestic revenue mobilisation - ECDPM, October 2011
Fiscal challenges, development opportunities? 20 key questions on domestic revenue mobilisation - Paper from ECDPM (Bruce Byiers, Melissa Dalleau) - October 2011
Do Remittances Reduce Aid Dependency? IMF, October 2011
Kangni Kpodar and Maëlan Le Goff, IMF Working Paper, October 2011. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=25311.0
Supporting Capacity Development in Government Audit
Donors have always understood the importance of effective government audit to strengthen public expenditure. In the past decade, the increasing use of budget support and partner country systems for delivering aid have united countries and their development partners behind a common need: more effective government audit.
Management response to PEFA Evaluation
The PEFA Steering Committee (i.e. PEFA partners among which the European Commission) prepared the attached response to the evaluation report. More information on: http://www.pefa.org.
Independent evaluation of PEFA
Final report of the evaluation of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Programme (PEFA). More information on PEFA website: http://www.pefa.org.
Simon Maxwell - Budget support is becoming an endangered species: what Busan must do to save it
Please refer to Simon Maxwell's website: http://www.simonmaxwell.eu/blog/budget-support-is-becoming-an-endangered-species-what-busan-must-do-to-save-it.html
Developing a tool to assess tax administration performance - Feasibility study
Study commissioned by the PEFA Secretariat, carried out by Willian Crandall and finalised in May 2011 that reviews existing tools and examines the opportunity and feasibility to have a specific PEFA-type assessment grid for tax administration, that would be a drill down from, or a companion to, the "parent" PEFA PFM Performance Management Framework. Also available on PEFA website:http://www.pefa.org/.
Global Economic Governance: IMF Quota Reform
Working Paper from the IMF (Arvind Virmani) examining the principles on which a reform of a quota-based global economic institution like the IMF must be based.
