Setting Up a Treasury in Economies in Transition

By Teresa Ter-Minassian, Pedro Martínez-Méndez, Pedro Pullen Parente

February 1, 1995

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Teresa Ter-Minassian, Pedro Martínez-Méndez, and Pedro Pullen Parente. Setting Up a Treasury in Economies in Transition, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 9, 2024

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Summary

The primary mandate of a national Treasury is to promote an optimal financial management of government resources, by ensuring that spending agencies are provided, in a timely manner, the resources needed for a smooth provision of public services, while minimizing the cost of government financing. However, international experience shows that agencies that go by the same name (the Treasury) assume a variety of responsibilities within the gamut of functions encompassed by government financial management. This paper argues that, in countries facing substantial economic and financial adjustment problems and/or rapid institutional change, it is desirable to give the Treasury a broader (rather than narrower) range of responsibilities in government financial management. This is typically the case in economies in transition, in which under central planning Treasury functions were dispersed among different agencies, including the Central Bank. The paper presents an overview of the main issues governments are likely to face in setting up a national Treasury, in particular in economies in transition. It begins with an analysis of the main Treasury functions. It then discusses the Treasury’s basic organization and structure, information system, and relationships with other public entities.

Subject: Budget execution and treasury management, Budget planning and preparation, Central government spending, Expenditure, Fiscal accounting and reporting

Keywords: Central bank, Net indebtedness, Treasury, Treasury system, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

66
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1995/016
Stock No:

WPIEA0161995
ISBN:

9781451843347
ISSN:

1018-5941

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