Publication: Tajikistan : Programmatic Public Expenditure Review
Date
2007-06
ISSN
Published
2007-06
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The Programmatic Public Expenditure
Review (PPER) has been designed to cover five themes which
represent the key challenges for fiscal policy and Public
Financial Management System (PFM) reforms in Tajikistan. The
themes are as follows: Theme 1: Public Expenditure, Fiscal
Space and Growth; Theme 2: Policy-based Budgeting; Theme 3:
Efficiency of Public Expenditure in the Social Sectors;
Theme 4: Fiduciary Risks; and Theme 5: Inter-governmental
fiscal relations. Theme 1 responds to questions of fiscal
policy design, especially related to the composition of
expenditure and the magnitude of external borrowing, which
are becoming increasingly important in Tajikistan and which
are likely to have a profound impact on the long term
development of the economy. Theme 2 responds to the decision
taken by the Government of Tajikistan (GOT) in 2006 to
reinvigorate efforts to implement the Medium-term
Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and to seek financial and
technical support from development partners for this
endeavor. Theme 3 focuses on expenditure efficiency in the
social sectors, an issue which has not hitherto been subject
to rigorous analysis, using methodologies which include
efficiency frontier analysis and Public Expenditure Tracking
Surveys (PETS). Theme 4 focuses on fiduciary issues and
includes a comprehensive evaluation of the PFM system using
the internationally accepted best practice methodology of
the Public Expenditure and Financial Assessment (PEFA).
Theme 5 will provide advice on how the structure of
inter-governmental fiscal relations can be reformed to best
accommodate the requirements of the MTEF, other PFM reforms
and the GOT'S Public Administration Reform Strategy
(PARS). This volume of the PPER focuses mainly on Themes 1
and 2, with chapters on how public expenditure can best
support economic growth, and on fiscal space for priority
expenditures (under Theme 1) and the introduction of the
MTEF (Theme 2). It also includes a summary of the PEFA, the
main report of which will be published separately.
Citation
“World Bank. 2007. Tajikistan : Programmatic Public Expenditure Review. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/8194e14f-7e0a-5bdc-8b12-0ea859e385da License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”