Guinea Bissau - The Challenge of Restoring Budgetary Discipline : A Public Expenditure Review

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dc.creatorWorld Bank
dc.date2013-07-30T22:25:49Z
dc.date2013-07-30T22:25:49Z
dc.date2004-02-05
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dc.descriptionThis Public Expenditure Review (PER) presents a critical view of Guinea-Bissau's nascent democratic structure, one that does not ensure a clear separation of powers, which results in the need for the judiciary to exercise its lacking independence. Restoring budgetary discipline requires a series of actions in the area of fiscal policy at the macroeconomic level, as well as measures geared towards better prioritization, and allocation of public resources. At the same time, the government needs to resume efforts initiated before the conflict of 1998/99, and take steps to reform the current public finance management system. The renewed reform agenda should focus on the budget cycle encompassing the legal framework regulating it, the way the budget is formulated, executed, controlled and accounted for, so that it can be possible to improve efficiency, transparency, and accountability in the use of public resources. The main findings include institutional weaknesses and recurrent macroeconomic imbalances; an economy heavily dependent on exports, vulnerable to seasonal supply shocks; thus, to circumvent a situation of growing financial difficulties, and institutional fragility, the public finance management system has become largely informal, with grave, undesired consequences in terms of transparency and accountability. The report focuses on institutional reforms, aimed at improving the government's revenue mobilization capacity, and strengthening budgetary discipline. Recommendations for the social sectors suggest seeking additional sources of public sector financing; strengthening regulation of the private sector in Health; reviewing the structure of the education budget; and, negotiating a more flexible use of donor funding, integrating the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process with the sectors' planning efforts. To this end, the coverage of the budget should be increased, coordination of information improved, the budget preparation process strengthened, enhancing expenditure control, through greater legislative and civil society involvement in the budget process.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/02/2980466/guinea-bissau-challenge-restoring-budgetary-discipline-public-expenditure-review
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/14682
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/14682
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418659
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.relationPublic expenditure review (PER);
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL OUTPUT
dc.subjectALCOHOL
dc.subjectBUDGET EXECUTION
dc.subjectBUDGET FORMULATION
dc.subjectCENTRAL GOVERNMENT
dc.subjectCPI
dc.subjectDEBT
dc.subjectEXECUTION
dc.subjectFINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
dc.subjectFINANCIAL CONTROL
dc.subjectFINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
dc.subjectFISCAL
dc.subjectFISCAL DISCIPLINE
dc.subjectFISCAL POLICY
dc.subjectFISCAL STANCE
dc.subjectFISCAL SUSTAINABILITY
dc.subjectFISHING
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT POLICY
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT REVENUES
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINFLATION
dc.subjectINFLATION RATES
dc.subjectINSOLVENCY
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESSES
dc.subjectINTEREST RATES
dc.subjectJUDICIARY
dc.subjectLICENSES
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC STABILITY
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subjectPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
dc.subjectPUBLIC EXPENDITURE
dc.subjectPUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
dc.subjectPUBLIC FINANCE
dc.subjectPUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPUBLIC FINANCES
dc.subjectPUBLIC FINANCING
dc.subjectPUBLIC INVESTMENT
dc.subjectPUBLIC MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPUBLIC RESOURCES
dc.subjectPUBLIC SECTOR
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVANTS
dc.subjectQUALITY CONTROL
dc.subjectREPRESENTATIVES
dc.subjectRESOURCE ALLOCATION
dc.subjectREVENUE SOURCES
dc.subjectSAVINGS
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROGRAMS
dc.subjectSOCIAL SECTORS
dc.subjectSTATE BUDGET
dc.subjectTAX
dc.subjectTAX REVENUES
dc.subjectTAX SYSTEM
dc.subjectTERMS OF TRADE
dc.subjectTRANSPARENCY
dc.subjectTREASURY
dc.subjectWORKERS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
dc.subjectJUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
dc.subjectBUDGETARY PROCESS
dc.subjectFISCAL POLICY
dc.subjectPUBLIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectPUBLIC FINANCE
dc.subjectREFORM POLICY
dc.subjectLEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY
dc.subjectCAPACITY CONSTRAINTS
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL REFORM
dc.subjectCAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subjectSOCIAL SECTOR INVESTMENT
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectDONOR FINANCE
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
dc.subjectINFORMATION MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectLEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY
dc.titleGuinea Bissau - The Challenge of Restoring Budgetary Discipline : A Public Expenditure Review

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