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Economy and Finance Blog Archive

Here you will find an archive of Economy and Finance Blog articles published before 1 May 2022, divided into their relevant categories.

Economy

Employment and Labour Market

Energy

Enterprise and Investment

Finance

Figure 1: Resources allocated at Monitoring Rounds 2011-12 to 2015-16

What is in-year monitoring and how does it work?

Later this month, the new Minister of Finance will announce the outcome of the Executive’s June Monitoring Round. But what is a Monitoring Round, and what opportunities does it…

Outcomes-based budgeting

What is ‘outcomes-based budgeting’, and what are the key benefits and limitations of using it?…
The figure shows that DAERA, the Department of the Economy, the Department of Finance and the Executive Office all received cuts for 2017-17 from their baseline. The Departments of Communities, Health, and Justice all received increase from their baselines.

Unpicking the Executive’s Budget 2016-17

How were resources allocated to the nine Executive departments, and how much did they get? On 13th January 2016 the Minister of Finance and Personnel published the Executive’s single…

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