OECD Journal on Budgeting
- Frequency :
- 3 fois par an
- ISSN :
- 1681-2336 (en ligne)
- ISSN :
- 1608-7143 (imprimé)
- DOI :
- 10.1787/16812336
The OECD journal on public sector budgeting, published three times per year. It draws on the best of the recent work of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials (SBO), as well as special contributions from finance ministries, and makes it available to a wider community in an accessible format. The journal provides insight on leading-edge institutional arrangements, systems and instruments for the allocation and management of resources in the public sector. Now published as a part of the OECD Journal subscription package.
How do treasury systems operate in sub-Saharan francophone Africa?
- Date de publication
- 23 mai 2003
- Pages
- 22
- Bibliographic information
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- N°:
- 22,
- Volume:
- 2,
- Numéro:
- 4
- Pages
- 49–83
- DOI
- 10.1787/budget-v2-art22-en
Treasury systems in sub-Saharan Francophone African countries share many features with the French public expenditure management system of the 1960s on which they were modelled. However, in a different economic and institutional environment, key elements of this framework have evolved in unexpected, unwelcome directions. This paper critically examines two main features of the French system in the sub-Saharan Francophone African context: the strict separation between the person ordering payment and the one disbursing funds, and the centralisation of funds in the treasury. This examination calls attention to – and suggests remedies for – the specific flaws that have evolved from the traditional framework.