In recent decades budget transparency has come to be seen as a pillar of good governance.
This article reviews budget‐related transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) to …

This paper explores the linkages between public investment, growth and poverty reduction,
with the aim of providing an overall view of existing theories, evidence and methods, and of …

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the
world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 …

This paper synthesises academic and donor research on the impact of governance work on
poverty reduction and development outcomes. There is a large body of work on the critical …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the budgeting practices in the Tanzanian
Central Government. New budgeting reforms were introduced following exhortations from …

One of the functions that people usually expect a government to perform is to reduce
inequality and poverty, and public spending is one way a policy maker works towards …

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the
end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their …

Purpose This paper explores how the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)
conflicts with annual budgeting and how University actors responded to such conflicting …

Purpose This study aims to investigate how actors' responses to competing logics (academic
and business logics) in budgetary practices in a university setting in Tanzania were shaped …

This research investigates the phenomenon of budgeting practices in the Tanzanian Central
Government. It seeks to understand how budgeting systems under the New Public …