Publication: Nepal : Public Expenditure Review - Roads
Date
2011-06
ISSN
Published
2011-06
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The report, Nepal Public Expenditure
Review - Roads, was completed June 2011. The report states
that the Government of Nepal has achieved several of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while maintaining
macroeconomic stability and prudent fiscal management.
Strengthening public expenditure management is an ongoing
reform agenda of the government's Three Year Plan, an
inclusive development strategy. The World Bank is
contributing to this public expenditure
management-strengthening agenda through a programmatic and
participatory Public Expenditure Review (PER) conducted
jointly with the government, relevant sector ministries and
donors. This report is the second of several in the
programmatic PER to assist the government to align resources
in the Three Year Plan and explore potential actions that
contribute to improving public expenditure and its
management. This report builds on the PER 2010 report
analysis of evolving fiscal aggregates and public
expenditure trends, and drills deeper into road sector
public financial management issues in order to improve the
sector s performance. Analysis of this report is based on
the government's official data. The report recommends
that there be a Strategic focus for reforms: It was
recommended that institutional improvement measures be
directed towards: (i) strategic policy reforms to improve
compliance; (ii) building on existing institutional
arrangements and their inter-linkages to strengthen
institutions; and (iii) institutionalizing proven
organizational management practices to improve efficiency of
road institutions. It is important that these improvement
measures be carried out in ways that strengthen local
governance in line with national development priorities and
the process of transitional management taking place in the country.
Citation
“World Bank. 2011. Nepal : Public Expenditure Review - Roads. Public expenditure review (PER);. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/81d730d8-ac9d-56ab-a04d-859e233c3f3b License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”