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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 | No | Data available is only the budget project. It's not the actual approved budget. Enacted budget is not available |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | Other | Available in PDF format |
| location | https://www.finance.gov.mw/index.php?option=com_docman&I - Data and Statistics by the Ministry of Finance | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Conducted a google search with the phrase Malawi budget. Found the Ministry of Finance website, and found the necessary links. | |
| characteristics | Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | Disaggregation is by program and expenditure. |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning & Development |