Publication: Tajikistan : Key Issues in Public Finance Management
Date
2014-06
ISSN
Published
2014-06
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
This policy note is part of the World
Bank's Programmatic Public Expenditure Review (PER)
work program for FY2012-2014. The PER consists of a series
of fiscal policy notes, which aim at providing the
Government of Tajikistan with recommendations to strengthen
budgetary processes and analysis. This policy note, the
fourth in the series, continues the fiscal policy dialogue
conducted in the previous notes. It is structured as
follows. Section 2 describes the current state of public
finance management (PFM) reform in Tajikistan. Sections 3
and 4 examine the amount and nature of public spending.
Section 5 explores the objectives the Government aims to
accomplish through its spending. Section 6 summarizes the
conclusions of the note: 1) since 2009, significant progress
has been achieved in strengthening the PFM systems in
Tajikistan; 2) the PFM reform agenda remains large and
complex and further progress depends upon overall progress
in transparency, efficiency, and equitable governance; 3)
the reasons for delays in PFM reform in Tajikistan have not
generally been technical but have resulted from the
challenges of managing the change associated with reform; 4)
the Government is urged to refocus its efforts on delivering
all targeted core reforms to obtain and share the amounts,
nature, and accomplishments of public spending; 5)
improvement in donor practices will help achieve these core
objectives as well as facilitate planning, align budget
spending with strategic goals, and strengthen
accountability; 6) as the PFM reform strategy has passed its
mid-point by 2014, the efforts need to be focused on
completing the establishment of core PFM functions and on
creating preconditions for more advanced reforms. This note
provides a number of recommendations to the Government to
help achieve its stated PFM reform.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2014. Tajikistan : Key Issues in Public Finance Management. Takijistan policy notes on public
expenditures;policy note no. 4. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20755 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”