Assessing Public Financial Management and Accountability in the Context of Budget Transparency in Africa UNECA.
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UN. ECA Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on (3z(BPublic Financial Management and Accountability Focusing on Best Practices in the Context of Budget Transparency(3y(B (2005, Sep. 19-20 : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia);United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa;
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Development Policy Management Division.;
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The policy goal behind the pursuit of fiscal transparency is to ensure that the objectives of fiscal policy, its legal, institutional, and economic framework, policy decisions and their rationale, data and information related to monetary and financial policies, and the terms of agencies’ accountability, are provided to the public on an understandable, accessible, and timely basis. Fiscal transparency is propagated as part of a larger policy goal of good economic governance
pursued to achieve poverty reduction and attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Indeed, on the African continent, the calls for more openness in the budget processes is part of a set of endeavours aimed at solving the paradox of copious natural resources and increasing donor magnanimity, on the one hand, and seemingly intractable abject poverty, on the other hand.
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“UN. ECA Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on (3z(BPublic Financial Management and Accountability Focusing on Best Practices in the Context of Budget Transparency(3y(B (2005, Sep. 19-20 : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Development Policy Management Division. (2005-11). Assessing Public Financial Management and Accountability in the Context of Budget Transparency in Africa UNECA.. Addis Ababa :. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/5609”Collections
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