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Standards and Codes


Assessing and Promoting Fiscal Transparency: A Report on Progress

Prepared by the Fiscal Affairs Department


March 5, 2003

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Contents

I.   Abbreviations and Acronyms
 
II.   Executive Summary
  A.  
 Introduction
  B.  
 Development of the fiscal ROSC process
  C.  
 Observations on fiscal transparency from completed ROSCs
  D.  
 ROSCs and other Fund activities
  E.  
 Linkages with other agencies and the private sector
  F.  
 Conclusions and Future Challenges
   
Boxes
1.   Fiscal ROSCs: Main Features
2.  
 Some Key Observations from Fiscal Transparency ROSCs
3.  
 A Regional Perspective: ROSCs in Latin America
4.  
 Coordination of ROSCs, Program-support, and TA: the Case of Pakistan
   
Annexes