Fiscal Monitoring
It is commonly agreed that at the heart of the economic problems of Turkey lies the troubles in public financial management. Public authority shall make no compromises from fiscal discipline and act in compliance with the principles of fiscal transparency in order to secure the sustainability of the economic stability and growth performance achieved over the last decade. Given the significance of public budgets for democracies, it is universally acknowledged that budget discipline is too important to be left to the rule of governments.
In developed western countries, non-governmental organizations/independent think-tanks have been monitoring public budgeting process, fiscal legislation, and fiscal transparency on behalf of the public for long.
TEPAV took a crucial step to fulfill this duty and become the 'budget watcher' establishing the Fiscal Monitoring Project. Since June 2005 TEPAV has been monitoring and assessing budget developments and fiscal legislation and communicate the results with the public with Fiscal Monitoring Reports.
Fiscal Monitoring Reports are mostly announced monthly, while bimonthly reports may be announced in cases where the changes in budget items shall be monitored and assessed as a whole.
In addition, Fiscal Monitoring Reports based on the 'Fiscal Transparency Index' developed by TEPAV experts are declared annually.
The reports both try to use a language which is understandable by people who are not experts of the subject and give a set of information and analytical content that will satisfy experts of the subject.
Fiscal Monitoring project that was carried out under the body of EPRI until 2006 is being coordinated by the Stability Institute since that date.
Below, you can access the full-text and summary reports published so far.
- TEPAV: “Primary Budget Expenditures Did Not Fall Back Down to the Pre-crisis Level”
- TEPAV: “With a Fiscal Rule, Fiscal Policy of 2011 Could Have Been Looser”
- TEPAV: "Fiscal Policy does not Stand Upright"
- The Share of Interest Expenditures Decreased while that of Social Security Increased
- Government Budget Patched Through the Unemployment Fund
- TEPAV announces Fiscal Monitoring Report February results
- TEPAV evaluated the 2009 budget results: “Declarations in more detail should be made for fiscal transparency”
- TEPAV: "Revised Budget Target Might Not Be Fulfilled Due To SSI"
- TEPAV :"Instead of Introducing a New Fiscal Rule, the Existing Fiscal Rule is Loosened"
- TEPAV Addresses Public Procurement Law Amendments:"How Valid is The EU Harmonization Rationale?"
- TEPAV: "Worst Fiscal Performance in the Last 9 Years"
- TEPAV Draws Attention To High Expenditures By Local Administrations
- TEPAV: "Fiscal Transparency Damaged"
- The Cost of the Latest Decisions will be 8.2 Billion YTL for This Year
- TEPAV: "Government's Fiscal Policy May Cost 45 Billion YTL"
- TEPAV: "Non-Budgetary Fund System Returns"
- TEPAV: "Deficit Target Envisioned in the Beginning Will be Achieved"
- TEPAV: "Degradation in the Budget has Become Very Serious"
- TEPAV: "IMF Performance Criteria will not be Met"
- TEPAV: "Degradation Trend in Budget Performance"
- TEPAV Scrutinizes Local Government Accounts
- TEPAV Has Warned Against Developments in Fiscal Legislation
- TEPAV : "How Will the Revenues from General Directorate of Highways' Lands Be Accounted for in the Budget?"
- TEPAV: "Budget Deficit Was 5.2 billion YTL in 2006"
- TEPAV: "We Had Anticipated the Negative Developments in the Budget"
- Fiscal Monitoring Report Launched
- Fiscal Monitoring Report 2011 April May Budget Implementation Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report 2011 January March Budget Implementation Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report 2010 Budget Implementation Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report October November 2010 Budget Implementation Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report June September 2010 Budget Implementation Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report December 2009 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report October November 2009 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report May June 2009 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report April 2009
- Fiscal Monitoring Report June July August 2008
- Fiscal Monitoring Report May 2008
- Fiscal Monitoring Report March April 2008
- Fiscal Monitoring Report January 2008
- Fiscal Monitoring Report October 2007
- Fiscal Monitoring Report September 2007 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report July August 2007 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report April 2007 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring Report March 2007 Budget Results
- Fiscal Monitoring January 2007 Report
