Under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director of the Public Governance (GOV) Directorate, and the direction of Jón Blöndal and Andrew Blazey, Head and Deputy Head of GOV’s Public Management and Budgeting Division, this paper was prepared by Delphine Moretti, Senior Policy Analyst and Arron Rabbitte, Policy Analyst in the same Division. This paper benefitted from comments by Robert Addison, Jamie Berryhill, Eddie Casey, Ferdinand Pot, Alastair Swarbrick, Alfrun Tryggvadottir, all from GOV, and Sebastian Barnes and Boris Cournede from the Economics Department (ECO). Case studies have received comments from the relevant national authorities, for which the authors would like to express their gratitude. The paper benefitted from editorial assistance and was prepared for publication and laid out by Meral Gedik. This paper, prepared as part of the Korea-OECD Multi-Year Research Programme on Budgeting and Public Expenditures Issues, has been shared with and commented on by the OECD Committee of Senior Budget Officials (SBO). Finally, the authors would like to thank Hyun-A Kim (Korea Institute of Public Finance) and Sook Jin Kim (Ministry of Economy and Finance, Korea) for their editorial assistance.
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