Norway: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes: Fiscal Transparency Module
IMF Staff Country Reports, June 19, 2009
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Bibliographic details
- Published: June 19, 2009
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829822.002
Summary
- This Selected Issues paper examines Kenya’s growth performance during 1980–2004.
- It considers the stylized facts on Kenya’s growth performance in the past two decades, in comparison with other Sub-Saharan African countries.
- The paper examines main sources of economic growth in Kenya, in the context of a conventional growth accounting exercise.
- It also considers the main determinants of the results indicated in the growth accounting exercise.
- The paper reveals that since the early 1990s, Kenya’s economic performance has been weaker than the average for Sub-Saharan African countries.
Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Financial statements, Fiscal accounting and reporting, Fiscal policy, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords: annual budget, budget document, Budget planning and preparation, budget year, CR, financial assets, Financial statements, Fiscal accounting and reporting, fiscal policy, fiscal year, Global, government function, internal audit, ISCR, local government, national budget, white paper
Principal findings (from the summary)
- The analysis covers the period 1980–2004 for Kenya.
- Growth accounting was used to identify main sources of economic growth in Kenya.
- Determinants of growth accounting results are examined to explain observed growth patterns.
- Comparative assessment indicates that Kenya’s economic performance has been weaker than the Sub-Saharan African average since the early 1990s.
Source: Norway: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes: Fiscal Transparency Module (IMF Staff Country Reports 2009, 193).