Public Expenditure Analysis and Management

Public Expenditure Analysis and Management

January 12-15, 2004

Day 1Jan 12, 2003

9:00 – 9:30Introduction (Anand Rajaram and Bill Dorotinsky)

9:30 – 10:45Public Expenditure in the new Development Consensus –A.Rajaram

10:45-11:00Coffee Break

Policy Matters

11:00 –12:00The Macroeconomics of Public Expenditure – Vandana Chandra

Key concepts: Macroeconomic balance

Fiscal sustainability

Key references: “Economics of the Government Budget Constraint”,

Easterly and Fisher

“Using Fiscal Policy to Spur Growth”, Baldacci, et.al.

12:00 – 5:30Public Expenditure in Key Sectors

A 2 part session. Each sector presenter will outline the key concepts and issues in their sectors that PERs should address. A follow-on panel discussion will then focus on how they would collectively assess a government budget. How can we provide advice and guidance to countries in the context of PRSP/MDG objectives?

Session 1

12:00 – 1:00Public Expenditure and Outcomes in the Health Sector – Jeff Hammer

1:00 – 2:00Boxed Lunch: Instruction, group formation, distribution of case work

2:00 – 2:50Public Expenditure on Infrastructure – Clive Harris

2:50 - 3:00Coffee Break

3:00- 3:50Environmental Policy and Public Expenditure – Anil Markandya

3:50 – 4:30Public Expenditure and Education Outcomes - Deon Filmer

4:30 – 5:30Panel Discussion: Assessing a Government Budget and Trade-offs

Session 2(Sanjeev Gupta, IMF plus sector presenters)

Day 2Jan 13, 2003

Management Matters

9:00 – 10:30Public Expenditure and Financial Management – an integrated perspective Bill Dorotinsky

10:30 – 10:45Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00History and contemporary challenges of PEM – Prof. Allen Schick

12:00 – 1:00Organization, Financing and Expenditure of Sub-national Governments – Dana Weist

1:00 – 2:00Boxed Lunch for working groups

2:00 – 3:00Public Administration for Service Delivery – Pay, Motivation and Management - Ranjana Mukherjee

3:00 – 3:15Coffee Break

Measurement Matters

3:15 – 4:15Measuring the Incidence of Public Spending – Dominique van de Walle

4:30 – 5:30The Use of PETS and QSDS - Ritva Reinikka

Public Expenditure work, Policy Dialogue and Lending

Day 3Jan 14, 2003

9:00 – 11:15Highlights from PER Task Managers

9:00-9:30Vinay Swaroop – Subnational PER – Maharastra

9:30-10:00Jose Lopez Calix – Use of PETS, link to lending, etc. – Peru

10:00 – 10:15Coffee Break

10:15-10:45Lev Freinkman – Armenia

10:45-11:15Questions and Answers

11:15 – 12:30Good Practices in PE work (Panel: A.Rajaram, B. Dorotinsky, P. Lettenhove, R. Hunja)

Case Study

12:30 – 2:30Breakout Group work with resource support (up to 6 groups, 7 per group)

3:00-5:30Case Study - Group Presentations with Panel Comments

Panel: Rajaram, Dorotinsky +(one EP person, one sector person)

Day 4Jan 15, 2003

HD issues and PE work

9:00 –11:00Highlights from HD-PER teams: health, education, social protection

11:15 – 11:30HD PER guidelines – Maureen Lewis

11:30 – 2:45HD Breakout groups

3:00 – 5:00Plenary Discussion of HD Concept papers with panel of “role playing” Minister of Finance, peer reviewer, sector director, country economist (to be confirmed)