Publication: Sudan: Rapid Assessment of the Public Investment Portfolio in the Fiscal Adjustment Context
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Date
2011-10
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2011-10
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World Bank
Abstract
Public investment to facilitate growth
and poverty reduction is paramount to Sudan's
development challenge. The acute need for rebuilding the
country's deteriorated infrastructure and service
delivery framework underscores the importance of more active
and effective public investment. The disproportional
composition of the spending adjustment raises particular
concern on pro-poor and public investment spending during
the subsequent fiscal adjustment period expected to follow.
Under the growing fiscal decentralization trend, the state
governments have taken up the primary responsibility to
provide basic public service deliveries to the poor; in such
a decentralized constellation, reduced support from the
federal budget could seriously jeopardize the provision of
basic services at the state and locality level. In
particular, public investment expenditure now has to
effectively address service delivery needs and the broader
development agenda, while at the same time the overall
resource envelope is declining. This note is the result of a
rapid assessment of Sudan's public investment portfolio
in the context of the anticipated fiscal adjustment. It is
not a full-fledged review on public investment projects or
the public investment management system. The main scope of
the assessment is: to quickly identify available information
on public investment projects from existing sources; to
provide an contextual overview of the overall public
investment portfolio in light of the imminent needs for
rationalizing the public investment portfolio; and to
outline conceptual guidelines for public investment
adjustments and to propose longer-term tasks to improve
public investment management.
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“World Bank. 2011. Sudan: Rapid Assessment of the Public Investment Portfolio in the Fiscal Adjustment Context. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23978 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”