IMF Working Papers

On Improving Public Expenditure Policies for the Poor: Major Informational Requirements

By Nigel A Chalk, Ehtisham Ahmad

May 1, 1993

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Nigel A Chalk, and Ehtisham Ahmad. On Improving Public Expenditure Policies for the Poor: Major Informational Requirements, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1993) accessed October 6, 2024
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Summary

An improvement in the quality of public expenditures is needed in many countries, given binding macroeconomic and fiscal constraints, and poverty reduction and distributional objectives. This process involves a reassessment of methodology used for this purpose by countries and international agencies, and the data needed for improved decision making. This paper reviews methods that might be used by international agencies, such as the Fund and the Bank, jointly with a survey of data currently available, required improvements in the data currently available, and required improvements in the information base. The scope for improvements in governments' expenditure policy making is also considered.

Subject: Defense spending, Economic and financial statistics, Education, Expenditure, Government finance statistics, Income, National accounts

Keywords: Aggregate expenditure ratio, Consumption pattern, Country, Country desk, Defense spending, Expenditure data, Expenditure profile, Expenditure scale, Government, Government accounting system, Government finance statistics, Income, National defense, Pay, Payroll data, Profile of a country, Public expenditure, Public goods, Standard of living, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1993/043

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0431993

  • ISBN:

    9781451846270

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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