Mobilizing and Managing Public Forestry Revenue
This paper considers the potential for improvements in forestry revenue management to complement other efforts toward sustainable forest management and to strengthen domestic resource mobilization. It describes forestry management as an extreme ver...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/878131576561576531/Mobilizing-and-Managing-Public-Forestry-Revenue http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33086 |
| Summary: | This paper considers the potential for
improvements in forestry revenue management to complement
other efforts toward sustainable forest management and to
strengthen domestic resource mobilization. It describes
forestry management as an extreme version of a classic
principal-agent problem, which manifests itself in high
levels of corruption, illegality, and revenue leakage at the
country level. To address these challenges, the paper
proposes that governments adopt a three-tiered sectoral
planning process with an appropriately long time horizon,
reflecting the length of forest life cycles and the
uniqueness of the sector given forests’ status as a
renewable natural resource providing essential public goods.
Building on a sound planning process, the paper recommends
mainstreaming attention to revenue-related issues throughout
sectoral management by improving data availability,
increasing transparency and stakeholder engagement, and
implementing a robust revenue management system. It suggests
a set of key revenue management components and institutional
principles that can be applied to the local context as
appropriate, with the aid of a questionnaire developed to
help governments assess current strengths and weaknesses.
These approaches may enable governments to improve decision
making on land use, protect financial and physical resources
that rightfully belong to the citizenry, and strengthen the
rule of law in a sector often plagued by its abuse. |
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