Government submitted ‘2011 government performance plan’ along with budget bill which amounts to 309.6 trillion won to the National Assembly. Government budget proposal of 2011 fiscal year is specifically aimed to improve social welfare, foster newly growing industry, and realize fiscal sustainability.
Efficient fiscal management is necessary for meeting policy goals, at the same time for maintaining fiscal soundness. In particular, regarding National Assembly’s deliberation of budget bill or settlement of account, performance-based budget is so significant that this report points out some problems of 2011 government perfor-mance plan to assist such legislative activity.
Evaluation results are as follow; first of all, total budget amount of 39 ministries and agencies included in 2011 performance plan accounts for 58.2 percent of total government expenditure. It means the amount of information to be utilized in the budget deliberation is only half of total budget. Secondly, this report points out some cases that need improvement for the effective performance management. This report also show some cases that need adjustment in budget amount. Thirdly, per-formance information is not much credible because of inadequate performance in-dicators and performance goals. Fourthly, some cases are lacking consistency in the performance system. Such lack of consistency results from insufficient logical con-nection among strategy goal, performance goal and management tasks.
Furthermore, this report suggests legal and institutional improvement, includ-ing the revision of the National Assembly Act which allows the National Assembly to request change of performance plan in order to secure performance-based fiscal management.
Efficient fiscal management is necessary for meeting policy goals, at the same time for maintaining fiscal soundness. In particular, regarding National Assembly’s deliberation of budget bill or settlement of account, performance-based budget is so significant that this report points out some problems of 2011 government perfor-mance plan to assist such legislative activity.
Evaluation results are as follow; first of all, total budget amount of 39 ministries and agencies included in 2011 performance plan accounts for 58.2 percent of total government expenditure. It means the amount of information to be utilized in the budget deliberation is only half of total budget. Secondly, this report points out some cases that need improvement for the effective performance management. This report also show some cases that need adjustment in budget amount. Thirdly, per-formance information is not much credible because of inadequate performance in-dicators and performance goals. Fourthly, some cases are lacking consistency in the performance system. Such lack of consistency results from insufficient logical con-nection among strategy goal, performance goal and management tasks.
Furthermore, this report suggests legal and institutional improvement, includ-ing the revision of the National Assembly Act which allows the National Assembly to request change of performance plan in order to secure performance-based fiscal management.