TY  - BOOK
ED  - The World Bank
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Zambia: public expenditure management and financial accountability review
SN  - 082135924X
AV  - HJ7931.5 .Z36 2004
U1  - 336.39'6894 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Government spending policy
KW  - Finance, Public
KW  - Zambia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180)
N2  - This book examine public expenditure management in Zambia. Zambia's economy is not growing fast. Poverty is on the rise. The quality of economic governance is on the decline. And public resources are not well spent. The badly needed first steps to reverse all this are to start getting the budgetary allocations right and to make sure those allocations go where they’re intended. That requires making the public aware of the government’s budgetary decisions and holding the government accountable for better performance. Budgets, now not credible, have to become credible. Spending rules, where they exist, must be strengthened and enforced. Where rules are missing, they must be created and once again enforced to remove today’s pernicious discretion. Addressing the longstanding challenges that Zambia faces in public expenditure management will require strong political will. For Zambia to assure that public accountability is enduring and not dependent on the government of the day, it must strengthen budget processes and institutions that can provide public oversight and promote basic checks and balances. This report provides an analysis of how Zambia can strengthen budgetary processes and institutions for accountability and effective service delivery to its citizens
UR  - https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/14841/344240PAPER0ZM101Official0Use0Only1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
ER  -