PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW 

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 - USA  THE WORLD  2004 
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<br/><br/>Table of Contents<br/>VOLUME 1-CORE REPORT<br/>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Spending Allocation..... Fiscal Sustainability and Expenditure Rigidities. Institutions of Budgeting and Expenditure Management ..27<br/>Public Spending for the Poor and the Rich...<br/>Fiscal Federalism and Geographic Equity .. ... .10<br/>Sectoral Analyses....... ...13<br/>Figures Volume I 2 Figure 1 Composition of Federal Government Expenditure.. Figure 2 Federal Government Investment, Current and Overall Balances Figure 3 Progressive and Regresive Spending Programs in Mexico-2000 8 Figure 4 Concentration Coefficients, Netional, 2000, 2002.... .g Figure 5 Public Expenditure as a Proportion of Autonomous Expenditure.. 11 Figure 6 Geographic Distribution of Per Capita Resources, 2002.. Figure 7 Geographic Distribution of Public Resources as a Share of State GDP .12 Figure 8 Distribution of Public Expenditure on Food Programs.. ..14 Figure 9 Geographic Distribution of Targeted Anti-Poverty Spending, 2002. .14 Figure 10 Distribution of Students in Public Education .. .15 Figure 11 Distribution of Students in Public Education.. .17 Figure 12 Distribution of Public Health Coverage, 19962002 ..20 Figure 13 Distribution of Procampo Transfers, 1994-2002 22 Figure 14 Geographic Distribution of Public Spending for A griculture per Capita.. ...22<br/>VOLUME 2-MAIN REPORT<br/>1. MEXICO'S PUBLIC FINANCE OVERVIEW<br/>Revenue and Expenditure Trends and Fiscal State-owned Enterprises Expenditures .9 Studies... Redistributive Instruments...<br/>Balances Revenue...<br/>Expenditures<br/>Federal Government Expenditures<br/>Deficits, Debt, and Fiscal Sustainability<br/>Budget Rigidities 7<br/>Conclusions and Policy Recommendations<br/>2. THE DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS FROM PUBLIC EXPENDITURE .12 .14<br/>Overview... Previous .17 " 18<br/>Data and Methodological Assumptions ..18<br/>Redistributive Demand.. .21<br/>...23<br/>The Distribution of Benefits: 1992-2002. ...26<br/>..25 
<br/><br/> Preface<br/><br/>At the request of the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, the World Bank produced this<br/>Public Expenditure Review (PER) that concentrates on four main issues: the overall fisca<br/>households with different income levels, the geographic distribution of the spending, and the<br/>sustainability and rigidities in expenditure, the distribution of benefits of public spending aCToss<br/>institutions for budgeting and expenditure management. Thus, it is not a<br/>traditional PER. with<br/>extensive analysis of spending efficiency and institutions in individual sectors.<br/>Such analysis is<br/>Health and Education.<br/>important and is anticipated as follow-up to this report, such as with PERS on Infrastructure.<br/><br/>To continue achieving advances in expenditure quality,<br/>adequate fiscal balances,<br/>the government will need to sustain<br/>address contingent liabilities such as for pensions, and make<br/>spending flexible enough to adiust to the evolving priorities of the nations. Chapter I deals with<br/>these issues.<br/><br/>A central part of this report concerns the analysis of benefit incidence to evaluate the impact of<br/>public expenditures<br/>as well understanding the incidence of taxes,<br/>existing<br/>and proposed<br/>Understanding he expenditure programs' differing distributions of benefit across income groups<br/>can help to evaluate their priority. This, in turn, can help bring agreement about fiscal reform or<br/>and help the poor. These are the concerns of Chapter 2<br/>the tax side. People will agree to pay more if there iS consensus that expenditures are effective<br/><br/>Another concern is the geographic distribution of public spending. Almost all the resources<br/>available to states and municipalities (except for the Federal District, DF) come from the federa<br/>as much per capita in real terms. Chapter 3 deals with the geographic-distribution issues.<br/>government. Compared with 1992, sub-national governments now get transfers for about twice<br/><br/>The fourth chapter concerns the institutions for budgeting and expenditure management<br/>Over the past 15 years, multiparty political competition at all three levels of government has<br/>decades. Making the new system fully operational. however, requires further institutional<br/>activated a democratic federal system, replacing a single party system that had been in place for<br/>reforms.<br/>The present administration seeks to leave an institutional legacy of transparency,<br/>accountability,<br/>of<br/>external opening of the economy makes institutional strengthening more urgent, because good<br/>and federalism that will hinder prospects of future political monopolies. The<br/>capita income growth.<br/>institutions seem to be the most important contributor to sustained competitiveness and per-<br/><br/>Activity (AAA). On the critical issue of the benefit<br/>This report is a parallel task with the Mexico Poverty Programmatic Analytic and Advisory<br/>efforts, the two reports divided the labor SO<br/>that incidence of spending and poverty reduction<br/>effectiveness and targeting of poverty reduction programs. while the PER aims to put these<br/>the Poverty Programmatic focuses<br/>on the<br/>programs in context by estimating the benefit incidence of all programs across all income levels.<br/>ederal spending is in line with their intended priorities for poverty reduction.<br/>The two tasks will help the Mexican authorities to see whether the actual benefit incidence of 
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