TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garcia-Escribano,Mercedes
AU  - Liu,Candace Yue
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
TI  - Expenditure assessment tool (EAT)
T2  - Technical notes and manuals
SN  - 1475592922
AV  - HJ7461 
U1  - 336.39 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Expenditures, Public
KW  - Government spending policy
KW  - fast
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "April 2017."; At head of title: International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - This manual presents the Expenditure Assessment Tool (EAT), which helps assess expenditures for any specific country. EAT uses the commonly available software program Excel and has been designed by Expenditure Policy Division at Fiscal Affairs Department at IMF. The information EAT provides can be very useful in the evaluation of government spending and in the identification of areas where there may be room to increase spending efficiency or rationalize spending. The evaluation is done through benchmarking of spending--levels, composition and outcomes--against regional and income comparators. The focus is on both the economic and functional classification of expenditures. The application of the tool to spending in Argentina is presented as an illustration
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