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dc.contributor.authorAyala, Ulpiano
dc.contributor.authorPerotti, Roberto
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-18T23:52:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-21T02:26:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-17T20:26:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-17T16:58:11Z
dc.date.available2015-12-18T23:52:29Z
dc.date.available2016-01-21T02:26:12Z
dc.date.available2017-04-17T20:26:52Z
dc.date.available2017-06-17T16:58:11Z
dc.date.issued2000-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11445/825
dc.descriptionThe rules that govern the budget process are important determinants of fiscal outcomes, with potentially important macroeconomic implications. This paper starts with a review of the theoretical underpinnings of the effects of budget processes and the main empirical evidence. After a brief institutional description of the Colombian budget process, an assessment and proposals for reform are made. The main issues analyzed here are the degree of centralization of the budget process, transparency, rules, and intertemporal links. Serious flaws have been detected: decentralization during the preparation of the budget, proliferation of budget documents, heterodox accounting standards and reporting for deficits and investment, insufficient coverage, biased forecasts and macro assumptions, unduly restrictive rules that promote creative accounting, or seemingly innocuous rules, and weak management of intertemporal links. It is recognized that better rules and institutions can be circumvented, but they can been
dc.description.abstractThe rules that govern the budget process are important determinants of fiscal outcomes, with potentially important macroeconomic implications. This paper starts with a review of the theoretical underpinnings of the effects of budget processes and the main empirical evidence. After a brief institutional description of the Colombian budget process, an assessment and proposals for reform are made. The main issues analyzed here are the degree of centralization of the budget process, transparency, rules, and intertemporal links. Serious flaws have been detected: decentralization during the preparation of the budget, proliferation of budget documents, heterodox accounting standards and reporting for deficits and investment, insufficient coverage, biased forecasts and macro assumptions, unduly restrictive rules that promote creative accounting, or seemingly innocuous rules, and weak management of intertemporal links. It is recognized that better rules and institutions can be circumvented, but they canen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDocumentos de Trabajo (Working Papers). No. 14. Agosto 2000
dc.subjectPresupuesto Nacional
dc.subjectPolítica Pública
dc.titleThe Colombian budget process
dc.description.jelH60
dc.description.jelH61
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