Cambodia - Enhancing Service Delivery through Improved Resource Allocation and Institutional Reform : Integrated Fiduciary Assessment and Public Expenditure Review

Since 1999 Cambodia has made significant headway in reforming public expenditure policy and management, yet in order to implement its development agenda, Cambodia will have to make much more progress on four principal fiscal, fiduciary, and institutional challenges. First, Cambodia will have to improve resource mobilization to ensure aggregate fiscal sustainability. Second, to reduce the fiduciary risk to public funds, the Government will have to engage in comprehensive reform o f budget execution, cash management, and public financial control systems. Third, the Government will have to rationalize public expenditure policy and management further to carry out both its Second Socioeconomic Development Plan (SEDP) and its National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NF'RS). Last, Cambodia will have need to undertake comprehensive civil service reform-focusing on pay and employment issues-in order to deliver poverty-reducing services. The following sections elaborate on these four core challenges and provide an outline of proposed solutions.

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Main Author: World Bank
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2003-09-08
Subjects:ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS, ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM, AGRICULTURAL SECTOR, BUDGET EXECUTION, BUDGET MANAGEMENT, CASH MANAGEMENT, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, CITIZENS, CORRUPTION, COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, CURRENCY UNIT, DECENTRALIZATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EXCHANGE RATES, EXECUTION, FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY, FINANCIAL CONTROL, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, FISCAL, FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY, GEOGRAPHICAL TARGETING, GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, HEALTH STATUS, INCOME, INCOME COUNTRIES, INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, INSTITUTIONAL REFORM, INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSFERS, LONG TERM, LOW INCOME COUNTRIES, MUNICIPALITIES, NATIONAL POVERTY, NATIONAL POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, NATIONS, PARTNERSHIP, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY REDUCTION, PRIME MINISTER, PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE POLICY, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW, PUBLIC FUNDS, PUBLIC OFFICIALS, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES, PUBLIC WORKS, RECURRENT EXPENDITURES, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, RESOURCE MOBILIZATION, ROADS, SECTOR POLICY, SERVICE DELIVERY, SERVICE EMPLOYMENT, SERVICE PROVISION, SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TASK TEAM LEADERS, TAX, TAX REVENUE, TEAM MEMBERS, TREASURY, WATER RESOURCES, YOUTH SERVICE DELIVERY, FIDUCIARY, PUBLIC EXPENDING PROGRAMS, CIVIL SERVICE, MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, EXPENDITURE ANALYSIS, FINANCING, HEALTH ISSUES, EDUCATION, TRANSPORT, AGRICULTURE, REFORM POLICIES,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2518262/cambodia-enhancing-service-delivery-through-improved-resource-allocation-institutional-reform-integrated-fiduciary-assessment-public-expenditure-review
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14635
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