Every month, one of our experts rounds up the latest must-read resources and stories from the world of public finance and development. Catch up on all blogs from this series below. You can also find out more about our Public Finance and Institutions programme.
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Public finance and development: top things to read in January
Insight | 12 January 2021 | Tom Hart, Cathal Long
Top things to read this month on accounting and auditing, the centralisation of financial management in the health sector and digitalisation.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: top things to read in December
Insight | 1 December 2020 | Tom Hart, Shakira Mustapha
Top things to read this month on corruption in the emergency response to Covid-19, Zambia’s recent debt default and tax in Africa.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: top things to read this month
Insight | 2 November 2020 | Tom Hart
Lessons learnt this month about the economic and fiscal impact of Covid-19, and how countries can manage spending.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: top things to read on fiscal responses to Covid-19
Insight | 29 April 2020 | Mark Miller
Must-reads on the fiscal responses to the coronavirus pandemic, strains on the health system and protecting households and businesses.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in October
Insight | 11 October 2019 | Mark Miller
Addressing geographical inequalities in accessing quality public services; the latest on the ‘shake-up of global tax’; the Africa Debt Monitor and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: five things to read in September
Insight | 12 September 2019 | Mark Miller
Finance ministries as 'pockets of effectiveness'; democratising tax research; the limits of transparency and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: nine things to read in June
Insight | 28 June 2019 | Mark Miller
How PFM reforms can improve health services; progress on open contracting; debt dynamics in Africa; a balance sheet approach to fiscal analysis, and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in May
Insight | 21 May 2019 | Mark Miller
Chinese lending; what budget officers do all day; financial management information systems; links between audits and electoral accountability, and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: eight things to read in April
Insight | 15 April 2019 | Mark Miller
Kenya’s tax treaty with Mauritius; revising corporate taxation; gender-responsive budgets; exiting from aid; fiscal policies for climate action, and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in February
Insight | 25 February 2019 | Mark Miller
This month's hot topics, from growing support for more equitable tax systems to the role of public finances in supporting job creation.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in January
Insight | 21 January 2019 | Mark Miller
Financial management information systems; sequencing vs aid programming issues; gender and taxation; aid transparency; IMF and capacity development.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in December
Insight | 6 December 2018 | Tom Hart
Covering Africa’s rising debt; financing infrastructure; tax in Africa; spending in Latin America; targeting spending; and health budget reform.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: five things to read in October
Insight | 30 October 2018 | Tom Hart
Latest resources on efforts to tax the digital economy; tax reform in Zambia; public sector accounting standards; financing social protection, and more.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: four things to read in July
Insight | 19 July 2018 | Mark Miller
What Brexit and the NHS can teach us about the limits of fiscal transparency, and other recent must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: seven things to read in June
Insight | 30 May 2018 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in April
Insight | 13 April 2018 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in March
Insight | 16 March 2018 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in February
Insight | 30 January 2018 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: five things to read in December
Insight | 12 December 2017 | Mark Miller
On subjects ranging from the US tax cut and the ‘presource curse’, to digitalisation and this month's key stories.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: four things to read in November
Insight | 13 November 2017 | Mark Miller
This month, Mark Miller's public finance round up focuses on tax.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: five things to read in October
Insight | 5 October 2017 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: six things to read in September
Comment | 31 August 2017 | Mark Miller
August's resources round-up provides the latest updates on topics ranging from the 10th anniversary of the global financial crisis to corruption and tax.
Read and commentPublic finance and development: five things to read this month
Comment | 26 July 2017 | Mark Miller
This blog forms part of a regular series of updates on the latest resources and must-reads in the public finance and development world.
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