This Public Finance Review (PFR) discusses the challenges and opportunities in strengthening Zambia’s fiscal governance to support the government’s ambitious development agenda through ...
Economic activity has remained resilient despite multiple successive shocks. The external current-account balance is estimated to have remained broadly unchanged, but foreign exchange reserves have ...
This public expenditure review (PER) 2022-2023 identifies options for an effective, sustainable, and inclusive fiscal adjustment. It therefore details Uganda’s macro-fiscal challenges and government’s...
The Government of Uganda (GoU) with support from the World Bank Group has conducted a Public Expenditure Review (PER) of the health sector as part of the broader PER which also covers macro-fiscal adjustment, ...
This report focuses on Module II(a) related to raising fiscal space through efficiency improvements in public investment management (PIM). The report assessed the performance of the public investment ...
This module of the Public Expenditure Review (PER) sought to identify options for an effective and sustainable fiscal adjustment by considering key macroeconomic variables, fiscal policy priorities...
This report presents a review of the intergovernmental fiscal transfer reforms program (IGFTRP) and its performance since 2015, as part of a broader Public Expenditure Review (PER) that aimed to explore...
Economic activity in Uganda is accelerating despite commodity-price inflation, global monetary tightening, international supply-chain bottlenecks, and a local Ebola outbreak. Real GDP growth is estimated...
The Ugandan economy will need to grow rapidly, sustainably, and broadly (i.e., in a shared manner), to reach middle-income status, lift its population out of poverty, and generate enough jobs for one...
New shocks hit the Ugandan economy in 2022, just as it was recovering as the COVID-19 pandemic waned and related mobility restrictions were fully removed. Commodity price surges and disruptions to trade...
The Ugandan economy is recovering from a sharp contraction due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) shock that had slowed growth to its lowest pace in over three decades. Real GDP growth is estimated to reach...
This makes debt and debt management transparency even more important. While new sources of funding can provide opportunities to advance development goals, they can also lead to significant economic...
Debt and debt management transparency improve accountability and, potentially, borrowing outcomes. Over the past decade, the emergence of new external creditors in Uganda has opened new sources of financing...
The development objective of Strengthening Capacities and Institutions for PIM, PPPs and DRM Project for Uganda is to strengthen institutions in management and financing of public investments, including ...