Book review: Is outcome-based budgeting in governments of emerging economies promising?

This book addresses public sector reform and performance management in emerging economies, with special reference to outcomes-based approaches in practice in government services. The book contains 15 chapters, covering 14 countries. Asia is by far the most represented continent, with nine countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, with two chapters, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam. The remaining chapters originate from Africa (Egypt and Kenya), Middle America (Honduras), the South Pacific (Fiji) and Europe (Turkey). In terms of the diverging income groups distinguished by the World Bank (WB) ^[1], 12 of the 14 countries are so-called lower-middle or...