Sierra Leone Public Expenditure Review 2021 : Sierra Leone Agriculture Sector Review
At the request of the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL), the World Bank is undertaking a programmatic Public Expenditure Review (PER) to analyze fiscal policy quality and provide policy advice to the GoSL with a focus on fiscal policy and public fi...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/671121623649097922/Sierra-Leone-Public-Expenditure-Reviews-2021-Sierra-Leone-Agriculture-Sector-Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36450 |
| Summary: | At the request of the Government of
Sierra Leone (GoSL), the World Bank is undertaking a
programmatic Public Expenditure Review (PER) to analyze
fiscal policy quality and provide policy advice to the GoSL
with a focus on fiscal policy and public financial
management. The analysis is also meant to inform World Bank
projects and operations, other development partners, and the
public. The activities of the Programmatic PER are and
organized in two modules. The first module is an overview of
public expenditure and a fiscal sustainability analysis.
More specifically, it analyzes the composition of the budget
(based on economic and functional classification) and fiscal
sustainability and risks. The second module of the PER is
comprised of four sector specific analyses: (i) health, (ii)
education (iii) social protection, and (iv) agriculture. The
selection of the specific sectors has been motivated by
their low level of public spending (in absolute and relative
terms), except for health, and low spending efficiency
scores the country experiences in these sectors. The
Agriculture Sector Public Expenditure and Institutional
Review (AgPEIR) therefore constitutes part of the second
module of the Programmatic PER. The AgPEIR covers core
issues related to the level and quality of public spending
in agriculture, which will help to identify the pathway to
fiscal adjustment and management of medium to long-term
expenditure constraints identified from the previous
administration’s budgetary details. The agriculture sector
review identifies existing patterns of expenditures in core
agriculture-related services and the functional
institutional capacities in the sector. It is intended to
help the new administration make evidence-based decisions on
resource allocation by identifying historical patterns of
expenditure, comparing these with sector achievements, and
suggesting areas for improvements in expenditure management
in the future. |
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