ETHIOPIA'S PUBLIC SECTOR: STRUCTURE, POLICIES AND IMPACT

Abstract

Meaningful economic plamdng implies above all that the budget will be
used consciously for furthering the government's aims. While by no means all
policies are exercised through or even reflected in the budget, those that can be
effectively promoted via the government 's spending, taxing and borrowing
powers are of great importance. Closely related to these powers involving the
mobilisation and allocation of resources, and sometimes greatly extending
their range, is the government 's broad authority overthe nationalised industries,
fisca l monopolies and other business-type organisations effectively or nominally
under its control. For this reason the public seclor in this paper is viewed as
including all public enterprises