Philippines: Technical Assistance Report-Public Investment Management Assessment

May 16, 2019

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Philippines: Technical Assistance Report-Public Investment Management Assessment, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed July 9, 2025

Summary

This Technical Assistance report highlights institutional weaknesses that need to be addressed and proposes eight priority reform measures to strengthen the public investment management framework in the Philippines. This report reviews public investment management practices in the Philippines, using the IMF’s Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) methodology. The PIMA findings could guide the upcoming Public Expenditure Review that is likely to be completed with the support of the World Bank. The PIMA provides a broad overview of institutional strengths and weaknesses along the public investment cycle. Strengthening public investment management in the Philippines would help maximize the return from the infrastructure investment in the coming years. While the public investment management institutions in the Philippines are generally comparable to emerging market economies, there is scope to improve performance. Standard methodologies for maintenance planning and costing of infrastructure assets exist for certain types of assets, and the same practice should be extended to other sectors. It would also be beneficial to establish a central monitoring mechanism to ensure the routine maintenance of major infrastructure assets.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Capital spending, Expenditure, Infrastructure, National accounts, Public financial management (PFM), Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending

Keywords: Annual budget, Asia and Pacific, Budget planning and preparation, Capital project, Capital spending, CR, East Asia, General government investment, Infrastructure, Investment management, Investment project, ISCR, Nonfinancial asset, Public investment, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Public investment spending, South Asia

Publication Details

Pages:

72
Volume:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2019/137
Stock No:

1PHLEA2019001
ISBN:

9781498315586
ISSN:

1934-7685

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