Public Management Reforms in Germany: New Steering Model and Financial Management Reforms

Public Financial ManageMent ReFoRMs in Post-conFlict countRies synthesis RePoRt

Analysis of Public Management Change Processes: the Case of Local Government Accounting Reforms in Germany

In Germany, financial pressure and a lack of efficiency have caused the need for several reform processes in the local governments of German municipalities. These local governments are facing a growing contradiction between decreasing levels of financial support and increasing responsibilities. In order to address this tension, municipalities are starting to change their accounting systems by i...

How Far Have Public Financial Management Reforms Come in Africa? Faculty Research Working Paper Series

This paper asks how strong African Public Financial Management (PFM) has become, after a decade and more of reform. How well do African PFM systems in place now facilitate effective public financial management? Where are the next challenges and how can they be met? It analyzes recent PFM assessments in 31 governments to answer these questions, identifying patterns of strengths and weaknesses ac...

Evaluation as Usable Knowledge for Public Management Reforms

Do public sector reforms use evaluation? What good practices has experience brought to light? Does evaluation have a future? In this article, evaluation shall be defined as an instrument or means for improving the capacity to learn about conducting successful change and defining achievable outcomes in the fields of public efficiency and effectiveness. Whilst many forms of evaluation exist, in g...

Economic Reforms and Macroeconomic Management in Pakistan

Pakistan was one of the few developing countries that had achieved an average growth rate of over 5 percent over a four decade period ending 1990. Consequently, the incidence of poverty had declined from 40 percent to 18 percent by the end of 1980s. But the 1990s proved to be a lost decade for Pakistan, Growth in per capita income dropped to slightly over 1 percent. Poverty resurfaced and about...