Public Financial Management & Budgeting

This introductory course on PFM aims to provide a basis for better understanding of core concepts, objectives and issues in PFM. It considers the context of PFM as well as the “upstream” and “downstream” stages of the budget. A particular focus of the course – both in the core material and the discussions – will be to examine how PFM arrangements impact on budgetary outcomes and the objectives of aggregate fiscal discipline, allocative efficiency and operational efficiency.