{"id":96,"date":"2016-08-19T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmuller.co.za\/notesfromtheperiphery\/?p=96"},"modified":"2016-10-19T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:47:02","slug":"recent-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanmuller.co.za\/notesfromtheperiphery\/2016\/08\/19\/recent-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently resigned from the Parliamentary Budget Office, where I have been working for the last two years, and accepted a post in the economics department at the University of Johannesburg. I&#8217;m really looking forward to getting back into academic work full time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subsequent to my departure, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/opinion\/2016-08-11-the-important-role-of-the-parliamentary-budget-office\/\">this article<\/a> published in Business Day on the under-rated importance of the PBO and what it <em>should<\/em> be doing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As I note in that piece, there is no sensible justification for devoting significant resources to organising a conference of this type when the office is (as noted in various speeches by political administrators) so heavily under-resourced, and should be focusing on its core legislated mandate. Nevertheless, some of the contributions from local and international experts provide a very nice characterisation of what PBOs should do, what they should <em>not<\/em> do, and how they can best serve the public interest. The general Parliament administration has actually done a great job on the multimedia front, so the conference presentations can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.gov.za\/live\/content.php?Item_ID=9292\">here<\/a> and the video feed can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vRedW78OARw\">on YouTube<\/a>. The majority of presentations from external experts are worth watching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now that I am back in academia, I will be writing a lot more about public finance issues, as well as the role of the PBO. And hopefully posting more regularly on strictly academic subjects as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently resigned from the Parliamentary Budget Office, where I have been working for the last two years, and accepted a post in the economics department at the University of Johannesburg. I&#8217;m really looking forward to getting back into academic work full time. 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