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The analysis presented in this Public Expenditure Review (PER) is designed to support the efforts of the Government of Cameroon (GOC) to enhance public expenditure efficiency and improve the quality of public goods and services. The report reviews public expenditure data over a 10-year period, examines trends in the composition and efficiency of spending, and assesses whether spending patterns are consistent with Cameroon's development objectives. The report includes an in-depth analysis of public investment, the budget category that has experienced the largest increase over past decade. It also evaluates the fiscal status of state-owned enterprises and explores the evolution of the wage bill, subjects that are especially relevant in Cameroon. Finally, the report reviews public health and education expenditures, which together account for 20.5 percent of total central government spending and which play a pivotal role in socioeconomic development and poverty reduction. The PER's recommendations are tailored to reflect the government's current fiscal consolidation effort and the ongoing implementation of its national development strategy. In 2009, the Government adopted the Growth and Employment Strategy Paper (Document de Stratégie pour la Croissance et l'Emploi, DSCE) as part of its overarching development agenda, Vision 2035, which calls for increased spending, a strong role for government in promoting private-sector development, and measures to enhance the delivery of social services. However, since 2014 Cameroon has joined other Central African Economic Community (CEMAC) member states in pursuing fiscal consolidation and expenditure rationalization. The PER offers specific recommendations for increasing expenditure efficiency across multiple sectors of the public administration.

This Public Expenditure Review (PER) takes stock of fiscal developments and institutions and analyzes the key issues that bear on the level, composition, challenges, and effectiveness of government spending and the stance of fiscal policy. Understanding these issues is essential, as new fiscal pressures are emerging in the process of economic transformation and as citizens demand higher quality of education and other public services. The fiscal reform agenda remains extensive but working on it will provide an opportunity to strengthen the effectiveness of government and boost inclusive economic growth. In the process of ongoing economic transformation, the government is facing several challenges in fiscal policy, for which this PER has developed policy options.

This paper examines trends in government spending in Latin America from the mid-1990s to 2006. It also examines key policy issues, including the cyclicality of spending, public investment, public employment, and social expenditures. It finds that primary expenditures have trended upward for the past ten years as a share of GDP, driven by increases in current spending, in particular for social expenditures. Fluctuations in real spending have continued to follow a procyclical pattern. The paper finds that there is substantial scope to improve the efficiency of public investment, public employmen