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Title: | Financial Reform in a Devolved African Country: Lessons from Ethiopia |
Author: | Peterson, Stephen B. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Public Administration and Development |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 131-148 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | banking financial policy Politics and Government Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.161 |
Abstract: | The informal 'traditions' of African financial systems do not provide the preconditions for building advanced financial management systems. The reform of financial systems in the public sector in Africa must be evolutionary. Before these systems can adopt 'management' techniques that focus on outputs and outcomes, they first must have appropriate 'administrative' techniques of control. Especially in African countries that are devolved, evolutionary and not revolutionary financial reform is needed. Experience to date in designing and implementing system changes under the accounts, budget and expenditure planning projects of Ethiopia's Civil Service Reform, designed between 1995 and 1996, vindicates this. These projects, which are being implemented by the Decentralization Support Activity project funded by USAID, have adopted a framework of financial reform management based on three steps - comprehension, improvement and expansion - and four tasks: reforming the approach, improving the design, managing implementation and protecting the reform. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |