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    Budget, state and people: budget process, civil society and transparency in Angola

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    This paper explores issues around budget governance in Angola by pointing out the obstacles and opportunities for increased transparency and popular consultation in the prioritisation of state expenditure. The paper reports on issues arising at the political and institutional level, the budget process and the role of civil society. Findings from the study include:
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    Budget support to Ghana: a risk worth taking?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This policy brief presents a case study of general budget support (GBS) in Ghana. It is argued that, by providing aid as budget support, donors have taken risks and made important contributions to poverty alleviation and governance.
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    Bank of the South: toward financial autonomy

    Center for International Policy, 2007
    The establishment of the Bank of the South (BoS) is an ambitious and strategic step in South American regional integration. This short report discusses the potential and limitations of the bank. It argues that the BoS has a decisive role to play in reuniting a region divided by decades of neo-liberalism. Authors provide several recommendations for the BoS:
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    Budget monitoring and policy influence: lessons from civil society budget analysis and advocacy initiatives

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This study examines the issues of budget accountability and budget policies. Within budget acountability it looks at budget groups’ impact on levels of budget transparency, public literacy and awareness of budget issues, and public engagement with budget processes. Budget policy includes for example investigation into the improvements in budget systems and shifts in allocations.
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    Training module: fiscal policy

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007
    This training module stems from a joint International Poverty Centre/Centre for Development Policy and Research (SOAS)  project on the MDGs. The research aims to stimulate an evidence-based and wide-ranging debate and help expand the policy choices of developing-country governments, especially for macroeconomic and adjustment policies.
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    The precarious state of public finance

    Global Policy Forum, 2007
    As part of the ongoing debate over sustainable development financing, this paper identifies and examines the obstacles to effective mobilisation of domestic revenues in Southern countries.
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    Financing of the private sector in Mexico, 2000-2005: evolution, composition and determinants

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    The 1994 Tequila Crisis was a disaster for Mexico’s financial and private sectors. This paper examines the evolution in financing to the private sector during a period in which the long-sought recovery in credit began to materialise, 2000-2005. It focuses on changes in the volume, accessibility, affordability, and diversity of financing to households and firms.
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    The decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?

    Oxford Policy Management, 2007
    Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.
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    India rising: faster growth, lower indebtedness

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the links between the public finances and growth in the post-1991 period in India. It particularly focuses on addressing how over the past 25 years, India’s economy has grown at an average real rate of close to 6 percent, and recently accelerating to 9 percent.
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    Audit committees in central banks

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2007
    This paper reviews the tasks and design of audit committees, increasingly recommended as a way to strengthen financial accountability and good central bank governance. To avoid a configuration where management would be overseeing itself, and thereby limit conflicts of interest, several options are available for oversight bodies depending on the prevailing legal tradition.

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