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  "title": "Republic of Slovenia: Technical Assistance Report-Establishing a Spending Review Process",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, September 16, 2015",
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  "summary": "This paper discusses key findings and recommendations of the Technical Assistance report on establishing a spending review process in Slovenia.",
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      "heading": "Overview and context",
      "content": "- Publication date: September 16, 2015\n- Series: Country Report No. 2015/265; IMF Staff Country Reports\n- Pages: 45\n- Volume: 2015\n- Issue: 265\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513585727.002\n- ISBN: 9781513585727\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Subject tags: Budget planning and preparation, Education, Expenditure, Labor, Public expenditure review, Public financial management (PFM)\n- Keywords (as listed): Budget planning and preparation, CR, early retirement, Eastern Europe, Europe, EUROSTAT General government statistic, EUROSTAT General government statistics, expenditure increase, government employment, government policy-makers, ISCR, policy objective, policy option, policy priority, Public expenditure review, spending pressure, statistics database, wage bill"
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Slovenia’s fiscal position is characterized as fragile, requiring further consolidation to ensure that the upward trajectory of public debt does not threaten long-term fiscal sustainability.\n- Spending in the education sector is identified as the fourth-highest spending level.\n- Spending pressures need to be explicitly identified, quantified, and included in the spending review to better inform the government’s decision making process.\n- Existing performance information associated with government expenditure programs needs updating to ensure development of more meaningful information focused on achieving desired outcomes to better inform future reviews."
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      "heading": "Recommendations and policy implications",
      "content": "- Establish a formal spending review process to support fiscal consolidation and better inform budgetary decision making.\n- Explicitly identify and quantify spending pressures and incorporate them into the spending review framework.\n- Update and improve performance information for government expenditure programs, with a stronger focus on outcome-oriented measures to inform future spending reviews."
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513585727.002",
    "Publication date: September 16, 2015",
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    "Issue: 265",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513585727.002",
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    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Subject tags: Budget planning and preparation, Education, Expenditure, Labor, Public expenditure review, Public financial management (PFM)",
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    "Slovenia’s fiscal position is characterized as fragile, requiring further consolidation to ensure that the upward trajectory of public debt does not threaten long-term fiscal sustainability.",
    "Spending in the education sector is identified as the fourth-highest spending level.",
    "Spending pressures need to be explicitly identified, quantified, and included in the spending review to better inform the government’s decision making process.",
    "Existing performance information associated with government expenditure programs needs updating to ensure development of more meaningful information focused on achieving desired outcomes to better inform future reviews.",
    "Establish a formal spending review process to support fiscal consolidation and better inform budgetary decision making.",
    "Explicitly identify and quantify spending pressures and incorporate them into the spending review framework.",
    "Update and improve performance information for government expenditure programs, with a stronger focus on outcome-oriented measures to inform future spending reviews.",
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