This publication from the 2017 CABRI Conference focuses on chronic pressures that turn into crises. It reflects on how South Africa, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire responded when unlimited demands (the financing of tertiary education in South Africa and the public wage bill in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire) reached a crisis point, threatening to destabilise the budget. It outlines options available to finance ministries when they are caught between bottom-up stakeholder pressure and top-down political pressure to undertake significant additional expenditures that may not have been budgeted for and may not be the best expenditure choices.
Year: 2018 Theme: CABRI Conference, COVID-19, 2017 CABRI Conference Language: English