Title:
Cash Budgeting - Sub Saharan Experience and Lessons for Zimbabwe
Paper Type:
Briefing Notes
Date:
February 2010
Summary:

Zimbabwe is emerging from a period of macroeconomic instability, and has adopted cash budgeting to manage prevailing revenue uncertainty. This briefing note examines the experience with cash budgeting in three sub-Saharan African countries: Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. It considers what lessons might guide Zimbabwe in developing its cash budgeting systems, avoiding the difficulties others have experienced, and ensuring that future macroeconomic stability is not dependent on the continuation of this emergency measure.