H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
Budget Transparency Index 2015 - Moldova's position in the world rankings
Monday, 15 February 2016
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Authors: Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Tatiana Savva,
This is a summary of the report. Full version available only in Romanian Expert-Grup assessed the Budget Transparency Index (BTI) for the Republic of Moldova and found no progress in recent years, largely due to…
Monitoring report on the execution of Court of Accounts' recommendations in 2014
Monday, 12 October 2015
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Authors: Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Tatiana Savva,
Summary The scale of irregularities found by Moldova’s Court of Accounts (CA) has exceeded 7 billion MDL in 2014, or USD 353 million. The audits have unearthed both technical and operational problems at the audited…
Evaluating public spending in the Republic of Moldova
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
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Authors: Iurie Morcotîlo,
Authors: Iurie Morcotîlo,
Abstract In recent years, the public expenditures’ framework in Moldova has recorded several positive developments. These developments were both quantitatively and qualitatively. Improvements were primarily noticed in the public debt management, thanks to technical and…
Budget 2015 provisions for social protection of disabled people
Monday, 22 June 2015
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Authors: Alisa Costin,
Authors: Alisa Costin,
Summary Share of social expenditures in 2015 will reach 13.5% of GDP, or 32.3% of the total National Public Budget, ie a 1.7% increase compared to last year. At the same time, the State Social…
Progress report “Moldova in the Eastern Neighborhood Policy 2005-2014
Tuesday, 16 June 2015
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Authors: Igor Boțan, Denis Cenușă, Mariana Kalughin, Adrian Lupușor, Iurie Morcotîlo, Polina Panainte,
Authors: Igor Boțan, Denis Cenușă, Mariana Kalughin, Adrian Lupușor, Iurie Morcotîlo, Polina Panainte,
Summary During 2005-2014, Moldova saw important progress in terms of European integration - signing the Association Agreement, visa liberalization with EU, ensuring more respect for human rights, providing e-governance, IT sector and social services’ reform.…
Analysis on the budget expenditures in agriculture
Friday, 12 June 2015
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Authors: Iurie Morcotîlo,
Authors: Iurie Morcotîlo,
Key messages from the report Agriculture plays an important role in Moldova's economy. Approximately 30.5% of country’s work force work in agriculture, while sector contribution to GDP was around 13% in 2014. Although financing for…
Wasting public funds: perception of the Local Authorities
Wednesday, 03 June 2015
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Abstract In 2010-2014, Moldova’s Court of Accounts issued 46 decisions based on its audit reports aimed to evaluate the management of public funds and assets by local authorities of level I and II from over…
Budget 2015 provisions in the Culture sector
Monday, 01 June 2015
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Authors: Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
Authors: Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
Summary Moldovan government paid in 2015 over 352 million MDL ($19.5 million) to the accounts of the Ministry of Culture - a 19% increase compared to last year. However, the share of culture spending in…
The most important 11 updates of the newly adopted Fiscal Policy for 2015
Thursday, 09 April 2015
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Excerpt from the Romanian version: The amendments that were pushed by the Government for the 2015 fiscal policy were developed under low transparency. Still, at least some of the business associations have had the opportunity…
Euromonitor, 4th quarter 2014 (#34)
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
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Abstract In July 2014, the National Action Plan for the implementation of the Moldova-EU Association Agreement which provides several relevant actions for justice reform, has been approved. However, the justice sector has little credibility in…
Transparency in the city of Chișinău
Thursday, 05 June 2014
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Igor Guțan, Tatiana Savva, Victoria Vasilescu,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Igor Guțan, Tatiana Savva, Victoria Vasilescu,
Budget transparency relates to how citizens participate and contribute to decision making on budgeting and how the expenditure is incurred. Analyzing the situation in Chișinău's Local Council, we found that the level of budget transparency in…
Public Acquisitions in Moldova: Problems and Solutions
Thursday, 05 June 2014
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Olesea Stamate, Serghei Merjan,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Olesea Stamate, Serghei Merjan,
In modern economies, more and more goods and services are purchased by government from the private market. Losses arising from procurement seriously affect infrastructure development and public services, leading to deterioration of the business environment…
Analytical note: Promoting a better financing of the main budget sectors in 2014
Monday, 23 December 2013
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Victoria Vasilescu, Eduard Mihalaș, Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Victoria Vasilescu, Eduard Mihalaș, Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
The aim of this Analytical Note is to present an independent opinion on how the Budget Law draft for 2014 reflects the priorities and development necessities of the Republic of Moldova. The materials exposed in…
Programme budgeting: Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Agriculture
Friday, 15 November 2013
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Authors: Eugenia Veverița,
Authors: Eugenia Veverița,
Programme budgeting is important because it shows a clear relationship between resources allocated and the objectives to be achieved and results. Also, the efficiency indicators that form the budget require a specified level of effectiveness…
Analysis of budgetary transparency
Thursday, 14 November 2013
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Denis Cenușă, Tatiana Savva,
Transparency of the budget process is an important aspect of the decision making process that requires separate attention based on an holistic approach to the budget cycle. Transparency in the decision making process including the…
How public money are being wasted: synthesis of the Court of Accounts reports published in first and second quarters of 2013
Friday, 04 October 2013
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Authors: Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Tatiana Savva,
The Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova has published 5 decisions in the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2013, which refer to the audit of the district budgets of Ocnița, Șoldănești, Ungheni, Soroca,…
Evolution of general government sector: lessons learned
Friday, 04 October 2013
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi,
The restructuring process of general government sector in Republic of Moldova is has been going through difficulties. High level of corruption and unstable democratic regime don’t facilitate establishment of optimal budgetary sector. In these conditions,…
Efficiency and transparency in usage of public forest sector resources
Tuesday, 06 August 2013
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Igor Guțan, Petru Bacalu, Dumitru Galupa, Victor Ermurachi,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Igor Guțan, Petru Bacalu, Dumitru Galupa, Victor Ermurachi,
The public forest sector is one of the less reformed sectors, keeping its essentially managerial approaches that have already been outdated by the economic and social realities of the Republic of Moldova. The activity of…
How public money are being wasted: synthesis of the Annual Report on the 2011 budget Court of Accounts reports of the Court of Auditors for the 2011 budget
Monday, 03 June 2013
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Authors: Boris Ghencea,
Authors: Boris Ghencea,
This content is exclusively analysing the Court of Accounts' Annual Report for 2011, which was published on 28.12.2012, with Court Decision no. 48 in 2012.This document is an analysis of the findings and conclusions made…
How public money are being wasted: synthesis of the Court of Accounts reports published in third quarter of 2011
Monday, 03 June 2013
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Authors: Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Tatiana Savva,
This report presents information on how the Court of Accounts' recommendations were implemented in 2012, and assesses the quality of responses submited by the audited institutions.In 2012, 51 reports were published and 3818 recommendations were…
Efficiency and transparency in usage of public resources allocated for culture
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Angela Stafii, Ghenadie Sonțu, Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Angela Stafii, Ghenadie Sonțu, Veaceslav Reabcinschi,
Culture development in Moldova is suffering more from improper management than from lack of financial resources allocated to this sector. The excessive presence of the State in Culture sector is hindering the private sector development,…
How public money are being wasted: synthesis of the Court of Accounts reports published in the third quarter of 2012
Monday, 03 December 2012
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Following the decisions published by Moldovan Court of Accounts in the third quarter of 2012, our main objective is to point out to the factors that systematically undermine an efficient and transparent allocation and management…
The Political Clientelism Manifested Through State-Owned Enterprises in the Republic of Moldova
Monday, 12 November 2012
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi,
This article is only available in Romanian.
Analytical note on the draft Law on the state budget for 2013: advocacy for better financing of priority sectors
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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Authors: Eduard Mihalaș, Ghenadie Sandu, Vladimir Garaba, Ion Manole, Valentina Moțpan, Angela Stafii, Eugenia Veverița, Dumitru Budianschi,
Authors: Eduard Mihalaș, Ghenadie Sandu, Vladimir Garaba, Ion Manole, Valentina Moțpan, Angela Stafii, Eugenia Veverița, Dumitru Budianschi,
The goal of this Analytical Note is to assess how the draft Law on the 2013 state budget reflects the priorities of the sustainable and inclusive development of the society. In this regards, six sectors…
The price of solidarity between generations and the optimal model for the pensions system reform
Thursday, 27 September 2012
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Authors: Adrian Lupușor,
Authors: Adrian Lupușor,
The current pensions system of the Republic of Moldova is based on the principle of solidarity between generations, according to which the collected contributions are used immediately to pay the pensions. Such a redistributive mechanism…
Efficiency and Transparency in the Use of Public Resources Allocated for Roads
Saturday, 25 August 2012
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Andrei Ababii, Igor Guțan, Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Andrei Ababii, Igor Guțan, Tatiana Savva,
After a long period of severe underfunding, which practically led to the delapidation of roads network, since 2010 the Republic of Moldova began to increase the funding of the sector. The purpose of this paper…
Assessment of the Budget Process Transparency in Moldova
Thursday, 19 July 2012
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Elena Culiuc, Victoria Vlad, Tatiana Savva,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Elena Culiuc, Victoria Vlad, Tatiana Savva,
Ensuring transparency is a key responsibility of the Government and a tool for increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the use of the public financial resources. The purpose of the study presented herein is to conduct…
Analysis of the Government of Republic of Moldova report on execution of the 2011 state budget
Thursday, 19 July 2012
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Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi,
Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi,
This document undertakes an analysis of the Governmental report on the execution of the 2011 state budget, with the purpose of understanding how transparent and informative are this class of reports, which are the main…
How public money are being wasted: synthesis of the Court of Accounts reports published in first and second quarters of 2012
Thursday, 12 July 2012
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The Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova has published 17 decisions in the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2012, which refer to the audit of the district budgets, public assets management by the…
An analysis of the degree of implementation of Court of Accounts recommendations in 2011
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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The process of implementation of Court of Accounts' recommendations is extremenly important to monitor for it does not suffice to point out to what is wrong in the administration of public resources, one also needs…
Analytical Note on the draft Law on the State Budget for 2012: Advocacy for Better Financing of Priority Sectors
Thursday, 24 November 2011
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Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Eugenia Veverița, Ion Gumene, Diana Levcenco, Gheorghe Barbăroșie,
Authors: Dumitru Budianschi, Eugenia Veverița, Ion Gumene, Diana Levcenco, Gheorghe Barbăroșie,
The goal of this Analytical Note is to assess how the draft Law on the 2012 state budget reflects the priorities of the sustainable and inclusive development of the society. In this regards, several sectors…
Analysis of the Experience in Implementation of the Social Aid Law
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi, Alexandru Sînchetru, Veronica Sandu,
Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi, Alexandru Sînchetru, Veronica Sandu,
This study presents a brief analysis of the experience with the implementation of the Law on Social Aid in Republic of Moldova in the period 2009-2011. Analysis is conducted both from the perspective of the…
Draft Law on the Academy of Science of the Republic of Moldova: Implications and Recommendations
Friday, 04 November 2011
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Authors: Ana Popa,
Authors: Ana Popa,
Following recent discussions about the inefficiency of the Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) sector in Moldova, recently a draft law on the Academy of Science of Moldova (ASM) was elaborated. Currently ASM's activity is regulated…
Investigation of Transparency and Economic Efficiency in the Use of the National Health Insurance Company’s Funds
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Authors: Ana Popa, Alex Oprunenco, Evelina Gherghelegiu,
Authors: Ana Popa, Alex Oprunenco, Evelina Gherghelegiu,
Moldova is placed unfavourably on most indicators measuring the health of the population, which indicates over the weaknesses in the health care system in the Republic of Moldova and over the relatively high financing needs…
The R&D Sector in Moldova: is a Reform Necessary or Not?
Monday, 27 June 2011
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Authors: Ana Popa, Valeriu Prohnițchi,
Authors: Ana Popa, Valeriu Prohnițchi,
The goal of this document is to evaluate the state support policy for the R&D sector in Moldova from the good governance perspective and to compare Moldova's performances with other countries, so that to clarify…
Analytical Study on Optimal Administrative-Territorial Structure for Republic of Moldova
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
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Authors: Ion Osoianu, Valeriu Prohnițchi, Igor Sîrodoev, Eugenia Veverița,
Authors: Ion Osoianu, Valeriu Prohnițchi, Igor Sîrodoev, Eugenia Veverița,
There are several sets of basic questions that the proposed study answers to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the decentralization reform in Moldova, including: 1) Is the current administrative-territorial structure responsive to the local,…
Policy Priorities for Promotion of the PPP Projects in Transport, Waste, Energy and Water Sectors in 2010-2013
Thursday, 01 July 2010
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Authors: Alex Oprunenco, Adrian Lupușor, Ana Popa, Petru Bacalu,
Authors: Alex Oprunenco, Adrian Lupușor, Ana Popa, Petru Bacalu,
The study assesses the development strategies and plans in the four sectors and the current level of engagement with PPP projects in each of the four sectors. Key problems have been evaluated and a list…
Transparency and Efficiency in Using the Roads Fund in Republic of Moldova
Thursday, 25 March 2010
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Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi, Adrian Lupușor, Alex Oprunenco, Victor Prohnițchi,
Authors: Valeriu Prohnițchi, Adrian Lupușor, Alex Oprunenco, Victor Prohnițchi,
This study aims to evaluate how efficiently and transparently the resources from the Roads Fund of Republic of Moldova are used. The study has found a number of significant deficiencies in formation and use of…
Feasibility of the Private Pensions System Implementation in the Republic of Moldova
Monday, 06 July 2009
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Authors: Adrian Lupușor,
Authors: Adrian Lupușor,
The negative demographic trends and forecasts about continuous worsening of the demographic situation in the near future, coupled with shrinking employment rate and of the share of working age population will significantly undermine the capacity…
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