Kyrgyz Republic Public Expenditure Review Policy Notes : Public Investment Management
Weaknesses in the public investment management (PIM) system may limit the gains from higher public sector investments in the Kyrgyz Republic. Capital spending has averaged 6.4 percent of GDP since 2010, up from 4.6 percent of GDP between 2005 and 2...
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Format: | Public Expenditure Review |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19717539/kyrgyz-republic-public-expenditure-review-policy-notes-public-investment-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19305 |
Summary: | Weaknesses in the public investment
management (PIM) system may limit the gains from higher
public sector investments in the Kyrgyz Republic. Capital
spending has averaged 6.4 percent of GDP since 2010, up from
4.6 percent of GDP between 2005 and 2009, with significant
investment in the energy sector and roads. Still, it remains
unclear to what extent these investment decisions reflect
the country's and sector priorities. Few projects,
with the exception of donor-financed projects are subject to
rigorous appraisal and there is no systematic procedure in
place to monitor implementation progress. As a result,
projects are often delayed or stalled and cost over-runs are
frequent. Donor-financed projects, which comprise the bulk
of public investment, are subject to relatively more
rigorous project cycle management; however, they too face
some of the same weaknesses. The rest of the note is
structured as follows: section two provides a diagnosis of
the public investment portfolio, including the structure of
expenditures, the quality of the data, and a quantitative
assessment of the efficacy and effectiveness of the public
investment portfolio. The assessment builds on previous work
on public investment in the Kyrgyz Republic, in particular
the Public Investment Diagnostic undertaken in 2012 under
the Capacity Building in Economic Management (CBEM) project.
Section three reviews the institutional and administrative
framework of PIM in Kyrgyz Republic. This draws largely
from the draft Investment Diagnostic Report prepared in
December 2012 using the eight key 'must-have'
features of a well-functioning public investments framework
proposed in Rajaram et.al. (2011). Finally, section four
includes a summary of the findings and detailed
recommendations on improving PIM. |
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