4th Annual Seminar
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Day One - 13 December 2007

Session 1: Legacy systems and legal framework practice in the Francophone and Anglophone traditions
1. Budgetary systems and multi-annual budgeting practices in francophone countries
    Halidou Ouedraogo, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Burkina Faso
2. Budget legacy systems and legislative framework in Kenya
    Kubai Khasiani, Ministry of Finance, Kenya
    Ian Lienert, IMF (Discussant)

Session 2: Mobilising of domestic revenues

Parallel Session 1: Tax policy and administration
1. Tax policy and administration: case of Uganda
Kenneth Mugambe, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic development, Uganda

2. Revenue administration reforms: recent trends and developments
Andrew Okello, IMF East-AFRITAC
  Parallel Session 2: Solving medium-term fiscal policy puzzles
1. Fiscal policy choices in a post-conflict environment
Frances Cossar and Christophe Nsengiyaremye, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Rwanda

2. The effects of different fiscal policies on the economy of Malawi
Dorothy Banda, Ministry of Finance, Malawi

Day Two - 14 December 2007

Session 3: Addressing incrementalism and expenditure rigidities

Parallel Session 1: Capital budgeting
1. Capital Budgeting in South Africa
Kuben Naidoo, National Treasury, South Africa

2. Capital budgeting in Botswana
Moeti Ekenyane, Ministry of Finance, Botswana
 

Parallel Session 2: Interrogating baselines and setting expenditure ceilings
1. Interrogating baselines and setting expenditure ceilings: the case of Ghana
Kwabena Adjei-Mensah, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana

Chris Claassen, Ministry of Finance, Namibia (Discussant)
Ian Hawkesworth, OECD (Discussant)

Session 4: Putting Aid On Budget
1. Overview and Literature Review
    Stephen Lister, Mokoro Ltd
2. Comparison of two country case studies - Mali and Rwanda
    Alta Folscher, Mokoro Ltd
3. Findings and recommendations
    Stephen Lister, Mokoro Ltd

The Putting Aid On Budget study outputs, including the good practice note, synthesis report and country case studies, are available for download here. 

Day 3 - 15 December 2007

Session 5: CABRI/OECD Budget Survey
1. CABRI/OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Survey
    Paolo de Renzio, LSE
2. Results of the 2007 survey on budget practices and procedures in OECD countries
    Ian Hawkesworth, OECD

The CABRI/OECD Budget Practices and Procedures survey and related material is available for download here


Synopsis of the 4th Annual CABRI Seminar on the International Monetary Fund's Public Finance Management Blog, "Making Public Money Count". Ian Lienert, a senior economist at the IMF who attended the seminar, gives an overview of each session. The blog article can be viewed here.