## FY2021—Output Cost Estimates and Budget Outturn

_Policy Papers, October 29, 2021_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 29, 2021
- Series: Policy Papers
- Volume: 2021
- Issue: 067
- Pages: 38
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513599731.007
- Stock No: PPEA2021067
- ISBN: 9781513599731
- ISSN: 2663-3493

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### Overview
- The paper presents highlights from the FY 2021 budget.
- The paper discusses outputs based on the Fund Thematic Categories and of inputs.

### Major findings and focus areas
- Highlights from the FY 2021 budget are presented (detailed breakdowns and analysis are in the full paper).
- Outputs are analyzed according to the Fund Thematic Categories.
- Inputs to outputs are examined (staff hours, cost estimates, and related measures are implied by the focus on output cost estimates).

### Thematic coverage (subjects emphasized)
- Budget planning and preparation
- Capital spending
- COVID-19
- Expenditure
- Health
- Monetary policy
- Political economy
- Public financial management (PFM)
- Total expenditures

### Keywords and operational emphases
- agile response
- Budget planning and preparation
- Capital spending
- Central Asia
- COVID-19
- fund Output
- Global
- output cost estimate
- staff Hours
- Total expenditures
- transparency policy

*International Monetary Fund. Office of Budget and Planning "FY2021—Output Cost Estimates and Budget Outturn", Policy Papers 2021, 067 (2021), accessed 9/19/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513599731.007*

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