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National government budget, that is the planned government expenditure for high-level activities, but not a fine-grained list of expenditure items. Open budget data allows for well-informed publics: showing where money is spent on, how public funds develop over time, and why certain activities are funded.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No mention of license, data reuse policy etc ... just simple publisihing. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | PDF files only. | |
| location | https://www.dgbudget.mg/lois/LFI - Finance law website inside the Ministry of Finance's website. | Budget documents can be found on the Finance law website. The entire budget disaggregation |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Inside the Ministry of Finance website there are different links to the different documents regarding budget, etc. | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance and Budget (MFB) |
Original submission linked to different reports regarding public expenditure, taxes and reports on the "citizen budget". The updated link takes you to the Finance Law website where you can download the most recent budget, including 2017, as well as the budget projects up to 2002.