Publication: Zambia - Public Expenditure Review : Public Expenditure, Growth and Poverty - A Synthesis
Date
2001-12
ISSN
Published
2001-12
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
At the heart of the growth problem, the
persistence of poverty, and issues of policy reform in
Zambia is the public sector reform program. The best
practice in public sector reform identifies three areas in
which governments can improve their performance and their
impact on the economy and poor: 1) macroeconomic discipline
(the satabilization problem); 2) strategic priority setting
(the allocation problem); and 3) efficient public-service
delivery (the execution problem). Zambia's problem
appears to be in all three areas. In particular, the
aggregate performance, allocation, and execution of the
budget are vital to the success of Zambia's public
sector reform program. All three areas, particularly the
allocation and execution issues, as they apply to public
expenditure are the subject matter of the present public
expenditure review (PER).
Citation
“World Bank. 2001. Zambia - Public Expenditure Review : Public Expenditure, Growth and Poverty - A Synthesis. Public expenditure review (PER);. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15461 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”