This TAP Working Paper highlights lessons learned and places for civil society action based on World Bank Public Expenditure Reviews from the past eight years.

This paper reviews roughly 60 Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) conducted by the World Bank in virtually all regions of the world, and defines common problems and proposed solutions to improve the impact, quality, and equity of public spending. The goal of the paper is to identify key issues in public expenditure that are common to many of the countries, focusing especially on the role that civil society can play in improving expenditure effectiveness.

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Final-revised-Deolalikar-PER-review.pdf