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Is the budget linked to policy priorities? / Re: budgets, policies, laws and other strange bedfellows
« Last post by John Short on February 15, 2024, 17:43:58 GMT »If done properly 16.2, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2?
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If done properly 16.2, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2?
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Is the budget linked to policy priorities? / Re: budgets, policies, laws and other strange bedfellows
« Last post by harnett on February 15, 2024, 16:05:50 GMT »Or should there be another PEFA indicator which assesses political grasp of PFM at cabinet level or similar? Surely no integrated planning system can ignore such political buy-in?
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Is the budget linked to policy priorities? / Re: budgets, policies, laws and other strange bedfellows
« Last post by John Short on February 12, 2024, 15:51:45 GMT »Gord's interesting "polemic" post in 2010 is worth revisiting in the light of the PEFA 2016 Framework? Does Pillar IV Policy-based fiscal strategy and budgeting, PI-11 Public investment management and PI-8 Performance information for service delivery address his MTEF and PEFA concerns? Certainly there is much more attention to non MoF decision-making if the assessment is done properly.
And another from Gord to link-in!
https://pfmboard.com/index.php?topic=4396.0
and this on MTEF
https://pfmboard.com/index.php?topic=12.0
And another from Gord to link-in!
https://pfmboard.com/index.php?topic=4396.0
and this on MTEF
https://pfmboard.com/index.php?topic=12.0
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The Sector PFM Boards / Re: Health spending (or lack of it) and outcomes
« Last post by John Short on February 05, 2024, 10:34:15 GMT »Continuing the theme which shows the impact of lack of focus on health outcomes by parents and society as well as policy makers.
The Academy for Medical Sciences has recently released a report that sheds light on critical issues affecting health in the United Kingdom. Experts have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating health of children under the age of five in the UK. Alarming trends include:
• Obesity: More than 20% of children aged five are overweight or obese.
• Tooth Decay: Nearly 25% of five-year-olds in England suffer from tooth decay.
• Infant Mortality: Between 2014 and 2017, there was an increase in infant mortality in England, disproportionately affecting the most economically deprived areas.
• Global Ranking: The UK ranks 30th out of 49 OECD countries for infant mortality.
• Vaccination Rates: There has been a decrease in the proportion of children receiving vaccinations.
The report is not on the Academy website but more can be found at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h91x92
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/experts-lament-appalling-decline-in-health-of-under-fives-in-uk
The Academy for Medical Sciences has recently released a report that sheds light on critical issues affecting health in the United Kingdom. Experts have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating health of children under the age of five in the UK. Alarming trends include:
• Obesity: More than 20% of children aged five are overweight or obese.
• Tooth Decay: Nearly 25% of five-year-olds in England suffer from tooth decay.
• Infant Mortality: Between 2014 and 2017, there was an increase in infant mortality in England, disproportionately affecting the most economically deprived areas.
• Global Ranking: The UK ranks 30th out of 49 OECD countries for infant mortality.
• Vaccination Rates: There has been a decrease in the proportion of children receiving vaccinations.
The report is not on the Academy website but more can be found at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h91x92
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/experts-lament-appalling-decline-in-health-of-under-fives-in-uk
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The Sector PFM Boards / Re: Mainstreaming Climate Finance update
« Last post by John Short on January 14, 2024, 13:06:08 GMT »Searching randomly again I came across Kit's post back in 2012 on Climate Change which may have been ahead of its time!
In 2020 the PEFA Secretariat piloted a Climate PEFA and there have been quite a few assessments since.
Climate Related Public Financial Management (PEFA Climate) provides a standard methodology for assessing how well PFM systems can support the implementation of government climate change policies. PEFA Climate builds on the PEFA Framework.
CRPFM–1 Budget alignment with climate change strategies
CRPFM–2 Tracking climate related expenditure
CRPFM–3 Budget circular
CRPFM–4 Legislative scrutiny
4.1 Legislative scrutiny of budget
4.2 Legislative scrutiny of audit and evaluation reports
CRPFM–5 Climate responsive public investment management
5.1 Climate related provisions in regulatory framework for public investment management
5.2 Climate related project prioritization
5.3 Climate related provisions for project appraisal
5.4 Reporting from entities in charge of implementation
CRPFM–6 Climate responsive non-financial asset management
CRPFM–7 Climate related liabilities
7.1 Climate related fiscal risks
7.2 Climate related debt and guarantees
CRPFM–8 Climate responsive procurement
8.1 Climate responsive procurement framework
8.2 Climate responsive public procurement operations
8.3 Climate responsive public procurement monitoring
8.4 Climate responsive public procurement reporting
CRPFM-9 Climate responsive revenue administration
9.1 Climate related tax management, audit and investigation
9.2 Climate related tax arrears
CRPFM–10 Compliance of climate related expenditure
10.1 Effectiveness of the systems of controls
10.2 Compliance of transactions
CRPFM–11 Climate responsive fiscal decentralization framework
11.1 Climate responsive fiscal decentralization arrangements
11.2 Climate responsive fiscal transfers
11.3 Climate responsive PFM arrangements applied by subnational governments
CRPFM–12 Climate related performance information
12.1 Climate related information in performance plans
12.2 Climate related information in performance reports
CRPFM-13 Climate related evaluation
13.1 Climate related evaluation of expenditure
13.2 Climate related evaluation of taxes
CRPFM–14 Expenditure outturn for climate activities
14.1 Aggregate climate related expenditure outturn
14.2 Climate related expenditure composition outturn
Much more on PEFA.org website
In 2020 the PEFA Secretariat piloted a Climate PEFA and there have been quite a few assessments since.
Climate Related Public Financial Management (PEFA Climate) provides a standard methodology for assessing how well PFM systems can support the implementation of government climate change policies. PEFA Climate builds on the PEFA Framework.
CRPFM–1 Budget alignment with climate change strategies
CRPFM–2 Tracking climate related expenditure
CRPFM–3 Budget circular
CRPFM–4 Legislative scrutiny
4.1 Legislative scrutiny of budget
4.2 Legislative scrutiny of audit and evaluation reports
CRPFM–5 Climate responsive public investment management
5.1 Climate related provisions in regulatory framework for public investment management
5.2 Climate related project prioritization
5.3 Climate related provisions for project appraisal
5.4 Reporting from entities in charge of implementation
CRPFM–6 Climate responsive non-financial asset management
CRPFM–7 Climate related liabilities
7.1 Climate related fiscal risks
7.2 Climate related debt and guarantees
CRPFM–8 Climate responsive procurement
8.1 Climate responsive procurement framework
8.2 Climate responsive public procurement operations
8.3 Climate responsive public procurement monitoring
8.4 Climate responsive public procurement reporting
CRPFM-9 Climate responsive revenue administration
9.1 Climate related tax management, audit and investigation
9.2 Climate related tax arrears
CRPFM–10 Compliance of climate related expenditure
10.1 Effectiveness of the systems of controls
10.2 Compliance of transactions
CRPFM–11 Climate responsive fiscal decentralization framework
11.1 Climate responsive fiscal decentralization arrangements
11.2 Climate responsive fiscal transfers
11.3 Climate responsive PFM arrangements applied by subnational governments
CRPFM–12 Climate related performance information
12.1 Climate related information in performance plans
12.2 Climate related information in performance reports
CRPFM-13 Climate related evaluation
13.1 Climate related evaluation of expenditure
13.2 Climate related evaluation of taxes
CRPFM–14 Expenditure outturn for climate activities
14.1 Aggregate climate related expenditure outturn
14.2 Climate related expenditure composition outturn
Much more on PEFA.org website
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Are accounting, recording and reporting adequate? / Re: Empirical Evidence that Markets Pay Attention to the Quality of Fiscal Reporting
« Last post by John Short on January 04, 2024, 15:09:54 GMT »Searching randomly through past posts (which is quite educational and interesting), I came across this one - which preceded Liz Truss's premiership and the resultant budget. Perhaps this is one example of an answer to "Has anyone seen any empirical evidence to suggest that the markets are paying attention to the quality of fiscal reporting and underlying country PFM?" The question may have been asked some 8 years earlier but nonetheless an answer!
Any other answers from elsewhere?
Any other answers from elsewhere?
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The Country PFM Boards (in your own language if you like it) / Re: Éirinn go Brách
« Last post by John Short on December 31, 2023, 15:32:18 GMT »I must admit I was surprised at the latest year position in the series if not the progression up the table.
https://gfmag.com/data/richest-countries-in-the-world/
https://gfmag.com/data/richest-countries-in-the-world/
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The Sector PFM Boards / Rethinking development assistance for health
« Last post by John Short on December 09, 2023, 10:35:03 GMT »Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care
Tobias Kasper, MPA † Prof Gavin Yamey, MD †Sinead Dwyer, MA Kaci Kennedy McDade, MPA
Jon Lidén, BA Cora Lüdemann, MA et al.
Summary
Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to catalyse domestic resource mobilisation. Building on this paradigm, we make the case for targeting additional international funding for selected high-impact investments in primary health care. We have identified and costed a set of concrete, evidence-based investments that donors could support, which would be expected to have major impacts at an affordable cost. These investments are in: (1) individuals and communities empowered to engage in health decision making, (2) a new model of people-centred primary care, and (3) next generation community health workers. These three areas would be supported by strengthening two cross-cutting elements of national systems. The first is the digital tools and data that support facility, district, and national managers to improve processes, quality of care, and accountability across primary health care. The second is the educational, training, and supervisory systems needed to improve the quality of care. We estimate that with an additional international investment of between US$1•87 billion in a low-investment scenario and $3•85 billion in a high-investment scenario annually over the next 3 years, the international community could support the scale-up of this evidence-based package of investments in the 59 low-income and middle-income countries that are eligible for external financing from the World Bank Group's International Development Association.
Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care - The Lancet Number 10418 | Dec 09, 2023 p 2167- 2264
Published: November 12, 2023DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01813-5
Tobias Kasper, MPA † Prof Gavin Yamey, MD †Sinead Dwyer, MA Kaci Kennedy McDade, MPA
Jon Lidén, BA Cora Lüdemann, MA et al.
Summary
Global campaigns to control HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and vaccine-preventable illnesses showed that large-scale impact can be achieved by using additional international financing to support selected, evidence-based, high-impact investment areas and to catalyse domestic resource mobilisation. Building on this paradigm, we make the case for targeting additional international funding for selected high-impact investments in primary health care. We have identified and costed a set of concrete, evidence-based investments that donors could support, which would be expected to have major impacts at an affordable cost. These investments are in: (1) individuals and communities empowered to engage in health decision making, (2) a new model of people-centred primary care, and (3) next generation community health workers. These three areas would be supported by strengthening two cross-cutting elements of national systems. The first is the digital tools and data that support facility, district, and national managers to improve processes, quality of care, and accountability across primary health care. The second is the educational, training, and supervisory systems needed to improve the quality of care. We estimate that with an additional international investment of between US$1•87 billion in a low-investment scenario and $3•85 billion in a high-investment scenario annually over the next 3 years, the international community could support the scale-up of this evidence-based package of investments in the 59 low-income and middle-income countries that are eligible for external financing from the World Bank Group's International Development Association.
Rethinking how development assistance for health can catalyse progress on primary health care - The Lancet Number 10418 | Dec 09, 2023 p 2167- 2264
Published: November 12, 2023DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01813-5
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The Revenue Framework / Colombia introduces junk food tax
« Last post by John Short on December 03, 2023, 07:50:52 GMT »I had debated where to post this – under tax or under health, but tax won even though it hopefully will not raise revenue but nudges consumers to lower junk food consumption.
But also see other posts such as Food for thought on the Revenue Framework on this topic!
The country is one of the first to tax food high in salt and saturated fat to reduce obesity and other diseases. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá in the Lancet Published: November 22, 2023DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02628-4.
The new tax was included in a wider reform that passed into law in December, 2022, seeking to reduce the burden of obesity and other diseases on Colombia’s health system, while also bringing in revenue in a country that manages a fiscal deficit. “This isn’t to take your money, it is so that you choose healthier foodstuffs and improve the health of the Colombian people”, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who oversaw the law’s passage, wrote on X at the beginning of November, when it came into effect. The tax is being implemented gradually, beginning at 10%, before rising to 15% in 2024 and 20% in 2025, and targets foods that are high in salt and saturated fat, as well as industrially manufactured prepackaged foods. Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, said that the measure’s success will be judged on how consumer habits respond to the change in prices. “From an economic perspective the measure is fairly simple: to create incentives to guide consumer behaviour to healthier products, and to guide manufacturers to offer more healthy products”, Cárdenas said. “The ideal goal is that we reach a point where the collections of this tax are minimal because society (both consumers and vendors) has moved to a healthier market.
But also see other posts such as Food for thought on the Revenue Framework on this topic!
The country is one of the first to tax food high in salt and saturated fat to reduce obesity and other diseases. Joe Parkin Daniels reports from Bogotá in the Lancet Published: November 22, 2023DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02628-4.
The new tax was included in a wider reform that passed into law in December, 2022, seeking to reduce the burden of obesity and other diseases on Colombia’s health system, while also bringing in revenue in a country that manages a fiscal deficit. “This isn’t to take your money, it is so that you choose healthier foodstuffs and improve the health of the Colombian people”, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who oversaw the law’s passage, wrote on X at the beginning of November, when it came into effect. The tax is being implemented gradually, beginning at 10%, before rising to 15% in 2024 and 20% in 2025, and targets foods that are high in salt and saturated fat, as well as industrially manufactured prepackaged foods. Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Professor of Economics at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, said that the measure’s success will be judged on how consumer habits respond to the change in prices. “From an economic perspective the measure is fairly simple: to create incentives to guide consumer behaviour to healthier products, and to guide manufacturers to offer more healthy products”, Cárdenas said. “The ideal goal is that we reach a point where the collections of this tax are minimal because society (both consumers and vendors) has moved to a healthier market.
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Have you seen this? / Re: World Basic Income - Impact of AI examined
« Last post by John Short on November 17, 2023, 08:10:01 GMT »Interesting article on AI and UBI by Philippa Kelly with references to many studies
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/ai-is-coming-for-our-jobs-could-universal-basic-income-be-the-solution
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/ai-is-coming-for-our-jobs-could-universal-basic-income-be-the-solution