Financial Management and Governance Issues in Pakistan
Narayan, Francis B.; Godden, Ted | June 2000
Abstract
This report describes financial management and governance arrangements in Pakistan, identifies deficiencies in those arrangements, and presents recommendations to address those deficiencies. For the purposes of this study, financial management and governance arrangements are narrowly defined as being accounting and auditing arrangements and practices.
Citation
Narayan, Francis B.; Godden, Ted. 2000. Financial Management and Governance Issues in Pakistan. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4828. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Print ISBN
971-561-330-6
Keywords
Regional Development Finance
Public Scrutiny of City Finances
Non-Bank Financial Institutions
Local Government Finance
Government Financial Institutions
Foreign and Domestic Financing
Financial Risk Management
Assessing Corporate Governance
Good Governance
Governance Approach
Public Accounting
Business Financing
Subsidies
Social Equity
Economic Equity
Project Risks
Project Impact
Public Administration
Corporations
Investment Requirements
Banks
|Taxing power
Tax administration and procedure
Tax policy
Effect of taxation on labor supply
Decentralization in government
Community power
Corporate divestment
Civil government
Delegation of powers
Equality
Neighborhood government
Subnational governments
Delivery of government services
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