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Title:Problems of implementing reform of public expenditure management in Nigeria
Author:Adeyemo, O.A.
Year:1989
Periodical:Savings and Development
Volume:13
Issue:3
Pages:267-286
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subject:public expenditure
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/25830194
Abstract:This paper addresses three main issues in the public sector of the Nigerian economy, namely, problems in the management of public expenditure, constraints in the implementation of policy reforms to overcome these problems, and prospects of successful implementation of policy reforms, given the success of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) so far. The problems in the management of public expenditure in Nigeria derive from the size of the public sector and the ad hoc responses to the flow of revenue to the government. In the implementation of policy reforms there has been a long-standing tradition of piecemeal execution of policy packages. There is also a long-standing tradition of policy reversibility. Implementation problems had their roots in policy, structural and institutional inadequacies in both the public sector and the entire economy, particularly before the introduction, in 1986, of the SAP. The efficiency of the sector should be tackled by means of a consistent package of reform measures. The success of such a package depends on how well both internal and external constraints can be overcome and on the extent of policy perseverance. Ref., sum. in English and French.
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