This Public Finance Review (PFR)—the first such assessment by the World Bank for South Sudan— aims to evaluate the state of the nation’s public finances and provide actionable recommendations to create fiscal space for public investment and service delivery while strengthening fiscal governance. The report is structured to systematically address core challenges. Chapter 2 situates recent macroeconomic developments within South Sudan’s post-independence history, offering a diagnostic of the causes behind its repeated macroeconomic crises. Chapter 3 explores the oil sector in South Sudan and the role of oil and non-oil revenues in its macro-fiscal dynamics. Chapter 4 analyzes budget execution and the effectiveness of public spending. Each chapter provides a set of short- and medium-term policy priorities. Conducting this analysis in a fragile context presented significant challenges, including lack of data, which heavily constrained the preparation of the PFR.

 

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• Author: World Bank;
• Document Date: 2026/01/29
• Document Type: Report
• Report Number208073
• Volume: No1
• Country: South Sudan,
• Region: Eastern and Southern Africa,
• Disclosure Date: 2026/02/04
• Disclosure Status: Disclosed
• Doc Name: A Narrow Path to Recovery: The Key Role of Restoring Public Finances - South Sudan: Public Finance Review

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