Public Budgeting in African Nations: Fiscal Analysis in Development Management

Public Budgeting in African Nations offers essential budgeting and fiscal policy management information to development practitioners interested in improving governance and the performance of government. It shares timely regional and cross-cultural experiences with international audiences and gives reflective attention to comparative budgeting and fiscal policy management. This book adopts an interdisciplinary and pragmatic approach to analyzing research findings on public budgeting as a sustainable development tool, revealing that development practice benefits most from bottom-up, decentralized tactics of budgeting and fiscal policy, with the involvement of national, sub­national, and civil society institutions. The chapters in this volume together demonstrate that a balanced budget should draw from and reflect values and priorities across the full spectrum of social and political life.