Public financial management (PFM) has gone through a period of intense change since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009 and its aftermath. These developments include the financial response to climate change, gender-related budgeting, fiscal transparency and fiscal risks, public investment, and digitization and AI. This anthology of collected work first published through the PFM blog hosted by the IMF describes these key developments from 2008 to 2024 and organizes them by topic. With an introduction to each section written by Richard Allen, the book tells a story of the change within the industry and the effects on those who both research it and work in it, and will be of interest to policymakers, public financial management scholars, professors, and practitioners, and financial historians.

Richard Allen is a senior consultant and global adviser on public finance. He has advised finance ministers and governments in more than 70 countries worldwide. Richard has held senior positions at HM Treasury, the Board of the European Investment Bank, the OECD, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the IMF.

Sailendra Pattanayak is currently Division Chief at the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF. He has advised a wide range of countries of all income levels on public financial management issues, and has led policy and analytical work on fiscal transparency, GovTech/digitalization, fiscal governance, treasury management, and fiscal risks.