Medium-Term Budget Frameworks in Sub-Saharan African Countries /

More than 15 years ago, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa embarked on a program of budgetary reform, an important element of which was a medium-term budget framework (MTBF). This working paper focuses on the performance of these frameworks in six countries-- Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania...

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Autor principal: Allen, Richard
Altres autors: Chaponda, Taz, Fisher, Lesley, Ray, Rohini
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/203
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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