Author/Editor: Vybhavi Balasundharam, Olivier Basdevant, Dalmacio Benicio, Andrew Ceber, Yujin Kim, Luca Mazzone, Hoda Selim, Yongzheng Yang.

Release Date:March, 2023

Surges in public debt in many countries since the COVID-19 pandemic have rekindled interest in fiscal consolidations, which often entail difficult policy choices in the face of economic and political more...

Author/Editor: Jan Kees Martijn, Yan M Sun, William Lindquist, Yen N Mooi, Ezgi O Ozturk, Hoda Selim, Armine Khachatryan.

Release Date:February, 2023

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly an important vehicle for several Western Balkan countries to increase investment to reduce their infrastructure gaps. While there are benefits to more...

Author/Editor: Bruno Imbert, Hoda Selim, Gwenaelle Suc, Qing Zhao.

Release Date:July, 2022

This paper takes stock of unorthodox expenditure procedures in CEMAC and WAEMU countries and assesses their potential fiscal impact. Unorthodox procedures are defined as spending practices that more...

Author/Editor: Antonio David, Alexandre Nguyen-Duong, Hoda Selim.

Release Date:March, 2022

This paper assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of the WAEMU fiscal framework along three pillars that have proven to effectively support fiscal discipline in monetary unions—common fiscal rules more...

Author/Editor: Giovanni Melina, Hoda Selim, Concepcion Verdugo-Yepes.

Release Date:June, 2019

This paper argues that oil revenue management and public investment in Congo are vulnerable to corruption as a result of limited transparency and accountability. Corruption has potentially more...