Check out these recent articles and publications for some analyses and updates on global budget transparency, accountability, and participation.

Publications

• World Bank report on key challenges and lessons learned from budget transparency and monitoring initiatives (also see this related video)
• New IBP policy note on the challenges and opportunities for budget transparency in Tunisia
• Paper by IBP’s Albert van Zyl on the role of civil society organizations in transparency and accountability systems, presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research
• Report from the Africa Research Institute on reforming revenue administration in Burundi
• IMF paper on the origins of fiscal transparency in Western Europe

Open Budget Index 

• Blog post from Population Action International looking at what the 2012 OBI scores mean for groups that focus on budget advocacy
• Blog post from the Institute of Social Justice that breaks down the results of the 2012 OBI for Pakistan
• A look at how Malaysia scored on the OBI, and groups calling for greater budget accountability in Malaysia
• A discussion on the state of budget transparency in Azerbaijan preceeding budget discussions in parliament

Global Transparency Week

• Launch of Publish What You Fund’s 2013 Aid Transparency Index
• Commentary on the upcoming Open Government Partnership summit
  • What the ONE campaign wants the OGP summit to deliver
  • TechPresident’s take on what to watch for at the OGP summit
  • Warren Krafchik on important conversations for discussion at OGP13
• AidData 3.0 – the new release of AidData’s development data portal
• More information Global Transparency Week