reforming budget processes
Reforming budget processes to achieve discipline, allocative efficiency and operational efficiency is a promising area to address corruption issues.
Key potential actions to reform the budget process are:
• enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of government wide and agency-level financial management systems
• improving program performance monitoring and evaluation
• simplifying public procurement, eliminating noncompetitive aspects, actively rooting out cartels, and opening up tenders to international competition
• limiting congressional discretion over detailed line-items and strictly enforcing public finance rules in remaining cases.