Posted by Thibault Vermeulen, Richard Allen, and Teresa Curristine[1]
2018 was another bumper year for the PFM blog, with 70 articles being published. Readership levels remained high, as did the rich diversity of our articles, authors and readers. Forty percent of the articles, and a similar proportion of the top 10 (including our number one), were written by external contributors from international organizations, the public sector, academia, and the private sector; which is higher than last year. Topics ranged widely, from digital innovations in public finance, to the usefulness of perception indicators of corruption, to fiscal rules and PFM in resource-rich countries, to why countries adopt accrual budgeting, to gender budgeting, to making public infrastructure more efficient, and more. Some of these topics are old perennials, others were breaking new ground and stretching the envelope of knowledge.
