Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series: Budgeting and ...

Introduction to the Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series
Anwar Shah, Series Editor
A well-functioning public sector that delivers quality public services consistent with citizen preferences
and that fosters private market-led growth while managing fiscal resources prudently is
considered critical to the World Bank’s mission of poverty alleviation and the achievement of
the Millennium Development Goals. This important new series aims to advance those objectives
by disseminating conceptual guidance and lessons from practices and by facilitating
learning from each others’ experiences on ideas and practices that promote responsive (by
matching public services with citizens’ preferences), responsible (through efficiency and equity
in service provision without undue fiscal and social risk), and accountable (to citizens for all
actions) public governance in developing countries.
This series represents a response to several independent evaluations in recent years that
have argued that development practitioners and policy makers dealing with public sector
reforms in developing countries and, indeed, anyone with a concern for effective public governance
could benefit from a synthesis of newer perspectives on public sector reforms. This
series distills current wisdom and presents tools of analysis for improving the efficiency,
equity, and efficacy of the public sector. Leading public policy experts and practitioners have
contributed to this series.
The first 14 volumes in this series, listed below, are concerned with public sector
accountability for prudent fiscal management; efficiency, equity, and integrity in public service
provision; safeguards for the protection of the poor, women, minorities, and other disadvantaged
groups; ways of strengthening institutional arrangements for voice, choice, and
exit; means of ensuring public financial accountability for integrity and results; methods of
evaluating public sector programs, fiscal federalism, and local finances; international practices
in local governance; and a framework for responsive and accountable governance.
Fiscal Management
Public Services Delivery
Public Expenditure Analysis
Local Governance in Industrial Countries
Local Governance in Developing
Countries
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers:
Principles and Practice
Participatory Budgeting
Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions
Local Budgeting
Local Public Financial Management
Performance Accountability and
Combating Corruption
Tools for Public Sector Evaluations
Macrofederalism and Local Finances
Citizen-Centered Governance