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  "title": "Pakistan: Technical Assistance Report-Improving Budget Practices",
  "publication": "Technical Assistance Reports, November 14, 2024",
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  "summary": "Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years. This report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget, tighten its execution and prevent policy slippages.",
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      "content": "- Publication date: November 14, 2024\n- Core finding: Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years.\n- Purpose: The report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget, tighten its execution and prevent policy slippages.\n- Additional focus: Advises on how to digitalize the budget process to improve monitoring and reporting."
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      "content": "- Budget credibility: Need to strengthen fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget.\n- Budget execution: Emphasis on tightening budget execution to prevent policy slippages.\n- Digitalization: Guidance on digitalizing the budget process to improve monitoring and reporting.\n- Scope of topics covered (as listed): Budget execution and treasury management; Budget execution processes; Budget planning and preparation; Expenditure; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts; Public financial management (PFM)."
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    "Published: November 14, 2024",
    "Series: Technical Assistance Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400293481.019",
    "Publication date: November 14, 2024",
    "Core finding: Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years.",
    "Purpose: The report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget, tighten its execution and prevent policy slippages.",
    "Additional focus: Advises on how to digitalize the budget process to improve monitoring and reporting.",
    "Budget credibility: Need to strengthen fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget.",
    "Budget execution: Emphasis on tightening budget execution to prevent policy slippages.",
    "Digitalization: Guidance on digitalizing the budget process to improve monitoring and reporting.",
    "Scope of topics covered (as listed): Budget execution and treasury management; Budget execution processes; Budget planning and preparation; Expenditure; Macroeconomic and fiscal forecasts; Public financial management (PFM).",
    "Strengthen fiscal institutions to deliver a more credible budget.",
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