Local governance is all about service delivery at the grass roots. Achieving service delivery at that level requires an effective internal audit to establish integrity in the management of public expenditure. Once integrity is achieved fiscal transparency ushers in fiscal accountability. The...

This paper focuses on the observance of standards and codes on fiscal transparency for Switzerland. The assessment reveals that the fiscal role of the executive and legislative branches of government, and the legal framework for the management of federal public finances, are clearly defined. The...

This Selected Issues paper examines Kenya’s growth performance during 1980–2004. It considers the stylized facts on Kenya’s growth performance in the past two decades, in comparison with other Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper examines main sources of economic growth in Kenya, in...