Romania - Building Institutions for Public Expenditure Management : Reforms, Efficiency and Equity - A Public Expenditure and Institutions Review
This Public Expenditure and Institutions Review (PEIR) was undertaken at a critical juncture of public expenditure management in Romania. Following three years of economic decline, the economy began growing in 2000, reaching a real GDP growth rate...
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Format: | Public Expenditure Review |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/08/1994648/romania-building-institutions-public-expenditure-management-reforms-efficiency-equity-public-expenditure-institutions-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15371 |
Summary: | This Public Expenditure and Institutions
Review (PEIR) was undertaken at a critical juncture of
public expenditure management in Romania. Following three
years of economic decline, the economy began growing in
2000, reaching a real GDP growth rate of 5.3 percent in
2001. The Government thus defined an economic reform
strategy, to move forward the banking system and enterprise
privatization, contain fiscal deficit, and reduce central
government expenditures, with further fiscal
decentralization. The PEIR focuses on five areas: (i)
Structure of central state budget; (ii) Fiscal
decentralization; (iii) Social expenditure; (iv) Pension
reform; and (vi) Military and defense sector budget. The
PEIR presents a policy framework for enhancing the
effectiveness of processing, and allocating public
expenditures, to improve Treasury accounting, curbe budget
ceilings by accumulating payment arrears, and, by subjecting
foreign financed public investments to full budgetary
scrutiny. By emphasizing accountability in the management of
extra-budgetary funds, the PEIR places also a need for
firmer financial foundations for health, and pension funds,
as well as on reconsideration of the present education
finance mechanisms. Finally, it takes a broader look towards
the need to define more stable local government expenditure
assignments, that clearly define local government's own
functions, from delegated functions. |
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