Spending For Development Making The Most Of Indonesias New Opportunities Indonesia Public Expenditure Review 2007 World Bank by World Bank 9780821373200, 9780821373217, 082137320X, 0821373218 instant download after payment.

This report tries to establish the facts about Indonesia s public expenditures, presenting trends over time and analyzing the composition across sectors and levels of government. The report presents comprehensive information on key sectors, including sub-national governments and state-owned enterprises in key infrastructure sectors. Based on these facts, the report asks: Who benefits from these substantial amounts of public resources? Where are the gaps? Which regions are well-endowed? Which regions are lagging behind? In addition to these questions, this report also tries to respond to key concerns that are in the minds of many ordinary Indonesians and friends of Indonesia, such as: Can Indonesia afford to spend more? Is the current level of education and health spending sufficient? How to revitalize infrastructure investment, and which sectors are the priorities? Why is it so difficult to disburse funds through the government budget system? How unequal is Indonesia and how should fiscal transfers be structured to equalize disparities? Spending for Development: Making the Most of Indonesia's New Opportunities is an essential source of analysis for all stakeholders in public finance in Indonesia, some of the most important findings include: 1Thanks to the fuel subsidies cuts in 2005, Indonesia freed up US$10 billion in 2006 to spend on development programs. An additional US$5 billion also came available from increasing revenues and declining debt service. 2Despite the 2005 domestic fuel price adjustments, Indonesia still spends US$12 billion on subsidies annually, mainly on fuel and electricity. 3Thirty-six percent of all public spending is now in the hands of sub-national governments. 4While spending on education since the crisis has nearly doubled and spending on health has increased almost 70 percent, spending on infrastructure investment remains significantly less than pre-crisis levels (below 3.4 percent of GDP). 5Indonesia spends about 50 percent of its total annual capital expenditure in the final quarter of the year.