2025 marked yet another strong year for the PFM Blog! It continued to attract a growing global audience, with engagement levels reaching new heights. There was a wide range of contributors including international organizations, finance ministries, research institutes, academia, and independent experts as well as IMF staff.
As in previous years, the 2025 Blog publications covered a broad spectrum of public financial management topics. Alongside core themes, such as fiscal frameworks, tax administration, and budgeting practices, articles exploring sustainability, climate policy integration, human‐centered institutional reform, debt vulnerabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation and other novel approaches in PFM modernization featured prominently.
Going by the readership statistics, here are the articles that made the podium in 2025! Congratulations to the authors involved!
The third most viewed PFM article was Emerging Markets Face a Perfect Storm by Kanan Mammadov.
The second most viewed article was Top Five Trends in the Role of the Accounting Profession on Public Finances in 2025 by Srinivas Gurazada.
Finally, first place goes to What Measures can Developing Countries Take to Curb Rising Debt Levels? by Talal Rafi.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all PFM blog contributors and readers for their active participation and ongoing engagement with the blog. Your insightful articles and feedback have played a crucial role in enhancing the quality and reach of the blog. We look forward to your continued involvement as we strive to further enrich the Blog.
Please find below the list of the Top 10 most viewed PFM blog articles in 2025:
1. What Measures can Developing Countries Take to Curb Rising Debt Levels? by Talal Rafi
2. Top Five Trends in the Role of the Accounting Profession on Public Finances in 2025 by Srinivas Gurazada
3. Emerging Markets Face a Perfect Storm by Kanan Mammadov
4. Seven Success Mantras for Public Financial Management Reforms by Antonio Blasco and Srinivas Gurazada
5. Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy: Lessons from Singapore’s Experience by Amos Sanday
6. Climate Budget Tagging in Pakistan by the REMIT Pakistan Team
7. Has New Public Financial Management had its Day? by Julie Cooper and Tim Youngberry
8. Reforming Tax Administrations: a Focus on the Human Factor by Dmitri Yegorov
9. Medium-Term Fiscal Frameworks: From Paper to Practice by Teresa Curristine, Isabell Adenauer, Virginia Alonso Albarran, Claude Wendling, and John Grinyer
10. “Greening” PFM – We Need to Do Better by Antonia Ida Grafl
