Public Expenditure Newsletter Issue
7, January - June 2003
Performance-based
budgeting: beyond rhetoric
In
a recent PREM Note published by the World Bank, Professor Donald
Moynihan examines the ambiguity surrounding the definition and implementation
of the performance-based budgeting approach. The note highlights
the results from the Government Performance Project of Syracuse
University which tracked the performance-based budgeting efforts
of all U.S. states. Based on this study, Moynihan suggests that
few states rely on a strict performance-based system, but rather
veer towards a 'managing for results' system which more loosely
links resources allocations to performance measures.
