Development Programming and Public Budgeting in U.A.R (Egypt)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the methods and procedures followed in preparing the State Budget in the U.A.R., with particular reference to two aspects. The first is to show the importance of the budget as an instrument of national deve- lopment, hence the usefullness of any improvement in budgeting. The second aspect is to examine the applicability and limitations of introducing performance budgeting form, as opposed to line-budgeting, or object-expenditure form of budget which is most commonly used. As an important criterion of examination,we use the degree to which performance-budgeting could benefit planners of economic and social development in the new countries in drawing up good plans and in supervising, subsequently, the execution of the development policies and projects.