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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788701203321

Autore

Radev Dimitar

Titolo

Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds / / Dimitar Radev, Richard Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5584-6

1-4519-9237-8

1-283-51709-4

9786613829542

1-4519-0999-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (31 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

AllenRichard

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Financial management - Economic aspects

Budgeting

Public Finance

National Budget

Budget Systems

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Fiscal Policy

Budgeting & financial management

Public finance & taxation

Macroeconomics

Budget planning and preparation

Public financial management (PFM)

Expenditure

Extra-budgetary funds

Budget

Finance, Public

Expenditures, Public

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-29).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DEFINITION, DATA, CLASSIFICATION, AND TYPOLOGY OF EBFS""; ""III. WHY DO EBFS EXIST?""; ""IV. THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY EBFS""; ""V. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING AND REFORMING EBFS""; ""VI. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF FISCAL POLICIES AND PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT""; ""VII. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper addresses issues relating to the establishment and financial management of extrabudgetary funds (EBFs), a large group of government entities that on average accounts for 40 to 45 percent of central government expenditure-two-thirds of which represents social security funds-in countries at various stages of development. If improperly designed and managed, EBFs can undermine effective fiscal control. However, they also bring potential benefits in the form of greater autonomy of decision-making in countries with well-established governance and financial management systems that have applied the "agency model" of devolved public management and fiscal control. The paper develops a typology of EBFs and argues that EBFs are frequently created because of failures in the budget system and political economy factors that need to be recognized and, where possible, corrected. The paper recommends that data on EBFs be consolidated within a unified system of fiscal reporting and proposes an analytical framework that governments might use to evaluate the effectiveness and utility of their EBFs.