Public expenditure is one of the critical ingredients of a country’s development. Public expenditure issues therefore touch on virtually every aspect of the World Bank’s work, often defining the relationship between macroeconomic and sectoral concerns. Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) are core diagnostic studies prepared to help countries establish effective and transparent mechanisms to allocate and use available public resources in a way that promotes economic growth and helps in reducing poverty.
As part of the World Bank’s country economic and sector work, PERs are undertaken to assist the Bank's borrowers to understand their development problems and potential solutions as well as help illuminate the World Bank’s own country assistance strategy. The quality of analysis undertaken in the PER is one of the major factors contributing to the success of the ensuing country lending program.
For a detailed description of PERs see the Public Expenditure website. The World Bank Discussion Paper "Evaluating Public Spending: A Framework for Public Expenditure Reviews" by Sanja Pradhan is also available through the World Bank bookstore.
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