The Impact of Cash Budgets on Poverty Reduction in Zambia : A Case Study of the Conflict between Well-Intentioned Macroeconomic Policy and Service Delivery to the Poor

The Impact of Cash Budgets on Poverty Reduction in Zambia : A Case Study of the Conflict between Well-Intentioned Macroeconomic Policy and Service Delivery to the Poor

Facing runaway inflation and budget discipline problems in the early 1990s, the Zambian government introduced the so-called cash budget in which government domestic spending is limited to domestic revenue, leaving no room for excess spending. The authors review Zambia's experience during the pa...

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Main Authors: Dinh, Hinh T., Adugna, Abebe, Myers, Bernard
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
Macroeconomic policy
Service delivery
Budget management
Government spending policy
Fiscal efficiency
Cash management
Cash social transfers
Cash transfer system
Budget law & legislation
Regulatory reform
Reallocation of funds
Cross country analysis
account
accounting
accounts
allocation of resources
Appropriations
authority
balance of payments
bills
borrowing
budget appropriations
budget deficit
budget estimates
budget execution
budget implementation
budget management
budget process
budget projections
budget surplus
budget system
budgetary resources
budgeting
consensus
debt
debt service
decision making
Democracy
economic growth
enactment
exchange rate
expenditure categories
financial discipline
Financial Regulations
Financial support
fiscal
fiscal balance
fiscal discipline
fiscal management
foreign debt
foreign exchange
foreign exchange reserves
government agencies
government expenditures
Government Resources
government revenue
government revenues
imports
inflation
Judiciary
lack of accountability
Ministries of Agriculture
Ministries of Health
Ministry of Finance
National Planning
oil
payroll
private sector
public administration
public expenditure
public expenditure management
Public Expenditure Review
public expenditures
public health
quality of service
rehabilitation
Resource Mobilization
revenue collection
Roads
selling
social sector
Structural Adjustment
total expenditures
transparency
Treasury
wages
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15764

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