[wdmmg-discuss] bringing together spending of all UN countries

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Worth asking folks at the UN? In which case what, exactly, do we want
> to ask for? "UN member state budgets classified according to COFOG"?

I very much doubt they have that in any useful level of detail but we
could certainly learn a lot from the response - what kind of reporting
is going on there and what role the UN vs. the member states play in
this.

- Friedrich

> J.
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi Lisa,
>>
>> I really like this idea, and I hope we can get anywhere close to a
>> full comparison of UN members state budgets.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>  - I believe, but I don't know for sure, that 192 United Nations member
>>>   states each year classifies their spending under the COFOG system
>>
>> This would be fantastic if it were true but at least in Germany I
>> doubt it: I've queried the finance ministry for a cofog mapping of
>> their financial releases and they don't seem to have any (plus they
>> would not release it). The only link between German spending and COFOG
>> I've found so far was one established by our national statistics unit
>> a few years ago in an exploratory study. They, too, won't release the
>> mapping sheets used.
>>
>> I wonder, though: we do have a functional classification of spending
>> which is functionally equivalent to COFOG. How do you rate the
>> "credibility risk" in manually mapping this?
>>
>> (If Google Translate is your friend:
>> http://www.verwaltungsvorschriften-im-internet.de/bsvwvbund_16052001_IIFPl.htm
>> https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?authkey=CO3_leoP&hl=en&key=tljXl8WXu4oyTRCJ7YIaQDg&hl=en&authkey=CO3_leoP#gid=0)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  Friedrich
>>
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