Fiscal Reform.net -- Useful USAID Reference Site

Posted by Bill Dorotinsky

Always on the hunt for useful PFM reference material, PFM Blog has run across another useful site -- the USAID Fiscal Reform & Economic Governance Project web site. The site encompasses a wide range of PFM issues, including

• "Tax policy and revenue administration
• Budgeting and expenditure control
• Decentralization and inter-governmental finance
• Fiscal oversight and audit
• Public procurement
• Civil service reform
• Other issues related to government financial systems, e-government,
  and economic governance"

The site includes useful case studies of USAID technical assistance, selected tools (e.g. tax benchmarking), some "best" practice material (including "Building Fiscal Infrastructure in Post-Conflict Societies" which we blogged about on April 14), and a library of reference material.

The most recent addition to the site is a tool entitled "Collecting Taxes", a database of taxes and tax administration for 180 countries.

(PFM Blog noticed the project will do some work on public expenditure benchmarking, developing a methodology and database --- we hope they've heard of PEFA!)

Do visit the site, and book-mark it -- another one to visit regularly.

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