Publication

This report focuses on the role of the US Treasury Department in providing finance-related state-building and institution-strengthening assistance. It draws on a series of high-level meetings and consultations convened by USIP's Center for Sustainable Economies between May and September 2008. A key premise of Treasury's approach is a primary orientation toward assisting local government institutions on mutually agreed-upon reform programs, based on a thorough understanding of the local administrative systems to be reformed.