00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861876570 Buklod 20260212112431.0 g||| | || || ta 260212s2003 xx a rb |000 0|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00009331653 DECON BAG rda eng HJ 1384 P54 2003 Philippines improving government performance discipline, efficiency, and equity in managing public resources a public expenditure, procurement, and financial management review. improving government performance discipline, efficiency, and equity in managing public resources Manila Asian Development Bank 2003. xxiv, 200 pages illustrations 28 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "A joint document of the Government of the Philippines, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank." "April 30, 2003." SECTION A. AGGREGATE FISCAL DISCIPLINE 1. OVERVIEW: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND FISCAL CONTEXT: Matching The State's Role to its Capacity -- The Fiscal Context -- Recommendations. 2. EXPENDITURES AND REVENUES: TRENDS AND ISSUES: Expenditures -- Revenues -- Recommendations. 3. OFF-BUDGET RISKS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT: Fiscal Risks -- Mnaging Off-Budget Risks -- Recommendations. SECTION B. ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY 4. ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY: Economic Composition of Spending -- Agriculture and Agrarian Reform -- Education -- Health Care -- Allocative Distortions -- Recommendations. 5. THE MEDIUM TERM EXPENDITURE FRAMERWORK AND THE BUDGET CYCLE: Policies, Plans, and Budgets: The Political Dimension -- Planning: Processes and Instruments -- The Medium Term Perspective: Revenue & Expenditure Planning & Budgeting -- Management of the MTEF -- Budget Foundation and Process Issues -- Recommendations. 6. BUDGET EXECUTION, TREASURY CONTROL AND EXTERNAL OVERSIGHT: Financial Management -- Performance Management: The Filipino Experience in International Context -- Recommendations. SECTION C. OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY 7. THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT RGIME: Modernizing the Legal and Institutional Framework -- Electronic Procurement -- Civil Society Oversight -- Recommendations. 8. STRENGTHENING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Public Financial Accountability in the Philippines -- External Audit -- Accounting -- Internal Audit -- Recommendations. 9. CONTROLLING THE WAGE BILL: Public Employment: Size, Structure, Cost -- Compensation -- Strengthening the Public Administration -- Institutional Issues -- Education Sector: An Example -- Recommendations. 10. IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREIGN-ASSISTED PROJECTS: Enhancing Absortive Capacity -- Improving Project Identification and Preparation -- Increasing the Predictability of Project Financing -- Strengthening The Sustainabiity Of Project Outcomes -- Rationalizing Implementation Arrangements -- Recommendations. SECTION D. DECENTRALIZATION 11. DECENTRALIZATION: A SELECTIVE OVERVIEW -- Intergovernmental Finances and Service Delivery -- Public Expenditure Management -- Revenue Administration -- Human Resource Management -- Financial Management -- Procurement -- Performance Monitoring -- Recommendations. SECTION E. NEXT STEPS AND ACTION PLAN 12. NEXT STEPS: Dissemination Strategy -- Next Steps. ACTION PLAN Finance, Public Philippines. Philippines. World Bank. Asian Development Bank. FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN HJ 1384 P54 2003 Book