Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework

The 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management (ERPEFM) is the fifth in a series of annual assessments by some of the development agencies that contribute to the Multi-Donor Budgetary Support (MDBS) in Ghana. The review wa...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Public Expenditure Review
Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-30852021-04-23T14:02:06Z Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework World Bank BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION ECONOMIC PLANNING FISCAL DEFICIT FISCAL OUTLOOK PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT The 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management (ERPEFM) is the fifth in a series of annual assessments by some of the development agencies that contribute to the Multi-Donor Budgetary Support (MDBS) in Ghana. The review was prepared in close collaboration and after extensive discussions with senior government officials in the Government of Ghana, in particular with officials from the ministry of finance and economic planning. The main purpose of the review is to inform based on research findings the policy dialogue on public financial management that takes place in Ghana. The implementation of the 2009 budget is happening against the backdrop of the Government's stated objective of reducing the overall fiscal deficit to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), down from an estimated 14.5 percent in 2008. The remainder of this chapter is organized as follows. Section B recapitulates the change in Ghanaian public finances in 2008. Section C discusses the country's fiscal outlook and the policy challenges ahead. Section D closes the chapter with the main conclusions and recommendations. 2012-03-19T17:24:08Z 2012-03-19T17:24:08Z 2009-05 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333038_20090727010015 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3085 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review Africa Ghana
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topic BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION
ECONOMIC PLANNING
FISCAL DEFICIT
FISCAL OUTLOOK
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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ECONOMIC PLANNING
FISCAL DEFICIT
FISCAL OUTLOOK
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
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description The 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management (ERPEFM) is the fifth in a series of annual assessments by some of the development agencies that contribute to the Multi-Donor Budgetary Support (MDBS) in Ghana. The review was prepared in close collaboration and after extensive discussions with senior government officials in the Government of Ghana, in particular with officials from the ministry of finance and economic planning. The main purpose of the review is to inform based on research findings the policy dialogue on public financial management that takes place in Ghana. The implementation of the 2009 budget is happening against the backdrop of the Government's stated objective of reducing the overall fiscal deficit to 9.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), down from an estimated 14.5 percent in 2008. The remainder of this chapter is organized as follows. Section B recapitulates the change in Ghanaian public finances in 2008. Section C discusses the country's fiscal outlook and the policy challenges ahead. Section D closes the chapter with the main conclusions and recommendations.
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title Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
title_short Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
title_full Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
title_fullStr Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
title_full_unstemmed Ghana - 2009 External Review of Public Expenditures and Financial Management : Volume 2. The medium term expenditure framework
title_sort ghana - 2009 external review of public expenditures and financial management : volume 2. the medium term expenditure framework
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