Report on the Technical Assistance Evaluation Mission to Transition Economies - Albania and Georgia
Title | Report on the Technical Assistance Evaluation Mission to Transition Economies - Albania and Georgia PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2011-09-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1498339425 |
This evaluation of technical assistance (TA) and training in statistics looks at the experience of two transition economies, Albania and Georgia, during roughly the period 2005–2010. The TA, including the training, to these countries covered all the topical areas on which the IMF’s Statistics Department’s (STA) focuses, i.e., national accounts, price statistics, and monetary, balance of payments and government finance statistics, albeit with differing emphases between the two countries. Part of the assistance was funded directly from the IMF’s budget, while other elements (in particular the peripatetic advisors) were financed externally, in these cases by the Japanese government.
Georgia
Title | Georgia PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2017-09-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1484321154 |
This report evaluates the state of fiscal transparency in Georgia. Georgia has taken important steps to enhance its fiscal transparency practices over the past decade. Fiscal reports have become more comprehensive, with the development of a central government balance sheet and income statement. Fiscal forecasts and budgets have become more forward looking and policy oriented, with the introduction of a four-year medium-term budget framework, formal fiscal objectives, and a program budget classification. In addition, fiscal risk disclosure and analysis have improved dramatically, with the publication of a detailed statement on fiscal risks. At the same time, the evaluation highlights a number of areas where Georgia’s fiscal transparency practices could be further improved.
Report of the Director General on the Activities of the Organisation in ...
Title | Report of the Director General on the Activities of the Organisation in ... PDF eBook |
Author | Unesco |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Education at a Glance
Title | Education at a Glance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9789264156227 |
The OECD education indicators enable countries to see themselves in light of other countries performance. They reflect on both the human and financial resources invested in education and on the returns of these investments.
Making Politics Work for Development
Title | Making Politics Work for Development PDF eBook |
Author | World Bank |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2016-07-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464807744 |
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Poverty in Transition?
Title | Poverty in Transition? PDF eBook |
Author | United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Transition has already led to success in many countries. Nations such as Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Estonia, have numerous achievements to their credit. Further, countries such as Uzbekistan were able to effectively protect many citizens from acute socio-economic distress. A wealth of natural resources in countries such as the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan promises the potential for prosperity. At the same time, the process of transition has been painful for millions of citizens. There has been an unprecedented increase in poverty and mortality in countries, some of which have become, ironically, the most unequal in the world. Further, the countries of the former Soviet Union have suffered sharper reversals than any other region of the world in three indicators of socio-economic distress - mortality, income, and inflation. This report not only documents these adverse developments but also outlines the measures required to address poverty.
International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2019 Financial Statements
Title | International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2019 Financial Statements PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2019-10-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1513511726 |
The audited consolidated financial statements of the International Monetary Fund as of April 30, 2019 and 2018