View Research by Author - Juliana H. Pigey

Ms. Pigey, a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute since 1999 (and a consultant to UI for 6 years previous), has 18 years of international experience in local government financial and policy analysis; training; municipal infrastructure and utility budgeting, accounting, and reporting; intergovernmental fiscal reform; local government policy reform; and local government administration. Ms. Pigey has prepared baseline studies of local government finance systems; assisted local governments with improving capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting practices; identified municipal investment needs; and assisted in reforming local budget frameworks and charts of accounts. She has also proposed reform programs to increase local fiscal autonomy, analyzed legal and financial frameworks for the development of municipal credit markets, and provided policy analysis and assistance in legislative development. Ms. Pigey has worked directly with local governments in France on fiscal and budgetary analysis, budget forecasting, investment finance, and debt management. Countries in which Ms. Pigey has work experience include: Albania, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mali, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, and Vietnam.

Email: JPigey@urban.org

Publications

This initial situation analysis compares the features and potential impact of five postconflict interventions in Northern Uganda, including the Government of Uganda’s own Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for Northern Uganda and projects funded by the World Bank, USAID, and DfID. Each program aims to promote peace and recovery through improved public services and infrastructure, economic development, and livelihood opportunities, but each relies on local governments in somewhat different ways and to different extents. This natural experiment will allows us to assess how effectively each program engages local governments and how effectively local governments deliver public services post conflict.

This paper reviews the investment finance situation and municipal credit activity in four East European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic in 1994. It provides a brief overview of Central Government initiatives that have been enacted in support of municipal credit; an estimate of the magnitude of borrowing by municipalities in the four countries; an explanation of why lending has remained limited to date; and a discussion of major issues that have emerged in establishing national municipal credit systems.

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