Description:
This note focuses on the second of these
reform agendas, and in particular on how the institutional
and organizational system for public investment planning and
budgeting can be improved. Considerable analytical work has
already been done on the macroeconomic and fiscal framework,
and the Fiscal Stability Law (FSL), prepared with on-going
technical assistance from the International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank, was recently approved by the parliament.
The framework for public investment planning however is in a
state of flux, and there is a risk that the rapid changes
currently underway will result in fragmentation of planning
from budgeting, and within planning across financing
sources. The on-going changes therefore provide both an
opportunity and a risk, and this note is an attempt to
crystallize the Bank's on-going technical assistance in
this area in one document. The note complements, and draws
on, other analytical activities by the Bank, including a
governance and political economy assessment of the public
investment system in Mongolia, and the development of a new
framework for public investment management in resource
dependent countries.