This book explains how economies, institutions, and politics interact to produce budget outcomes in Latin America, a region in which informality dominates public governance. It includes detailed country analyses which provide comparative knowledge about the workings of policymaking and budget...

Ecuador's current political economy is largely a product of the boom that took place in the country's oil sector in the early 1970s. The pressure of heightened revenue flows created an oil-exporting factional democracy, and a dichotomy between policies focused on minimizing the pitfalls of...

This technical note discusses the civil servant pension system in Brazil over the past two decades. Since 1998 the Brazilian government has been implementing reforms to increase the financial sustainability of its pension schemes - seeking to contain pension deficits without hurting acquired...

The paper discuses the Brazilian scientific and technological framework, which has allowed the country to achieve outstanding advances in several fronts when compared to other developing countries. It focuses on the incentives for supporting firms' innovative activities, which include a wide...

This book contains a selection of studies discussed at the first and second Regional Meetings on Computable General Equilibrium, which were held, respectively, in Santiago, Chile on 13 and 14 April 2007 with the collaboration of the Centre for International Prospective Studies and Information...

In the past decade, parliaments have shown increasing activism in the budget process by demanding more information about the government's performance in managing public resources. Nevertheless, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), parliaments face important challenges, taking an effective...

The main objective of the Joint Country Financial Accountability Assessment (CFAA) and the Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR) is to contribute to the implementation of Public Sector Modernization Vision and Strategy for 2002-2012 and its Medium Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework. It also...

The budget process is increasingly considered key for reform efforts to improve fiscal outcomes. The authors embark on a political economy analysis of the budget process in Argentina, in the spirit of the IDB project "Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes" in order...

Este documento constituye el informe elaborado bajo la consultoría sobre operaciones extrapresupuestarias que se realizó por encargo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la reunión de la Red de Gestión y Transparencia de la Política Pública: Efectividad en el desarrollo y gestión...

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the 7th Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 8th and 9th, 2006. The purpose of the study was to assess the planning, implementation, programming, budgeting and evaluation of...