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- 2019 Open Budget Survey Released
Recent Media Coverage
Open Budget Survey in the news
- Kenya needs budget transparency to tackle poverty and inequalities (LSE)
- SL Budget openness improves, but still below global benchmark (FT)
- Mongolia’s Open Budget: Key to a Transparent and an Accountable Future (The World Bank)
- Is Pakistan becoming less transparent? (The Express Tribune)
- Transparency, oversight and engagement (Scoop News, NZ)
- Human rights must be at the heart of recovery (Third Force News)
- Open budgets in the time of COVID-19: A time of crisis demands transparency and accountability (Policy Forum)
- India 53rd in budget transparency, accountability in International Budget Partnership’s survey (Deccan Herald)
- Afghanistan breaks down its ministry of finance (The Diplomat)
- Budgets routinely passed without discussion and scrutiny, data show (Bloomberg | Quint)
- Fiscal transparency and strong public institutions: Connecting the dots (Daily Maverick)
- PHL journey to reforming budget process slow, but remains on track (Business Mirror)
- Municipalities need to be transparent to the people they serve (Business Day)
More: Download 2019 OBS Key Findings | Download the 2019 OBS Global Report | Read the 2019 OBS Executive Summary | View Open Budget Index 2019 Rankings | View Results by Country
IBP Research and Publications in the News
Media Mentions
- 29 September 2018: Counties advance towards budget transparency, Daily Nation
- 28 September 2018: Only 4 counties opened up budgets, The Star
- 19 November 2017: Kenyan expert roots for big data to transform healthcare services, News Ghana
- 14 November 2017: Public finance under the lens, Dhaka Tribune
- 14 November 2017: Coast, Nairobi, Central take largest share of roads budget, Daily Nation
- 2 September 2017: Governors urged to implement reforms in finance systems, Daily Nation
- 18 August 2017: Why citizens must demand fiscal transparency, The Daily Star
- 15 August 2017: Government hospitals on sale! Down To Earth
Blog Posts
- 11 August 2017: Ensure transparency in public spending, The Daily Star
- 19 July 2017: Swachh Bharat to Namami Gange: Red Tape in Schemes Ruins the Cause, The Quint
- 28 June 2017: What is really going on within ‘shrinking civil society space’ and how should international actors respond?, From Poverty to Power
- 13 June 2017: Sustainable Development Goals and Public Financial Management, FreeBalance
- 7 June 2017: What is public participation in fiscal policy and why is it important?, Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency
Publication Citations
- December 2017: Partial Two-Way Mirror: International Organization Budget Transparency, Global Policy
- May 2017: The Influence of Democracy and the Rule of Law on National Auditing Quality—Based on Experience Research on 96 Countries, 2nd International Conference on Education, Management and Systems Engineering
- April 2017: Public financial management and health services delivery, Overseas Development Institute
- 23 February 2017: Open Data and the fight against corruption in Brazil, World Wide Web Foundation
- February 2017: State-Society and Donor Relations: The Political Economy of Domestic Resource Mobilization in Nicaragua, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
IBP in the News
Press Releases
25 September 2019 Achieving Sustainability Goals Hinges on Credible Country Budgets
Media Mentions/Interviews
- 12 November 2020: Public auditors ‘face obstacles enforcing accountability during pandemic,’ Public Finance Focus
- 30 October 2020: Spending “More, Better and Differently:” How Governments Can Change the Narrative from Neoliberalism to Wellbeing, Global Centre for Pluralism
- 30 May 2020: Asivikelane campaign gives a voice to those living in informal settlements, Mail & Guardian
- 28 May 2020: Pandemic creates ways for scorned shacklands to call government to account, BusinessDay
- 27 September 2019: Governments underspend budgets ‘by 10%’, Public Finance International
- 18 April 2019: 2019/2020 county budgets to see improvement in public participation, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
- 19 March 2019: Budget underspending ‘damaging public trust’, Public Finance International
- 18 March 2019: Governments ‘showing signs of moving towards participatory budgeting’, Public Finance International
- 23 October 2018: UK’s DfID launches corruption initiative, Public Finance International
- 1 October 2018: Audit reports can boost accountability, Ghana told, Public Finance International
- 15 November 2017: This is a country that can break one’s heart in a million ways, Daily Maverick
- 5 September 2017: Punjab government focuses on sustainable tax growth, The News
- 2 September 2017: CDD-Ghana educates community on budgeting, planning, Ghana News Agency
- 25 August 2017: U.S Diplomat Stresses Transparency In Budget Process Of Liberia, The News
- 10 July 2017: Top Mumbai Hospital Refuses to Discharge Patient Unable to Pay Rs 1.60L Bill, Mid-Day
- 8 June 2017: Hassan Nahon Wants a ‘Citizens Budget’, Gibraltar Chronicle
- 2 June 2017: India Can Provide Universal Access to Healthcare Within 3 to 4 % of GDP, The Economic Times
Blog Posts
- 1 August 2018: What does ‘going to scale’ mean in poor communities in South Africa?, From Poverty to Power
- 11 January 2018: Canada can learn from Uganda’s gender budgeting experience, International Development Research Centre
- 23 August 2017: Советы и инструменты для освещения тем, связанных с государственным бюджетом, International Journalists’ Network
- 1 August 2017: Where Do South Africa’s Activists Go From Here? A Cape Town Conversation, Scroll.in
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Opinion & Editorial by IBP Staff
- 25 April 2019: Faster audit approvals by MPs mean faster justice, better policy, The Star
- 22 October 2018: Data key to health pillar success, The Star
- 2 March 2018: Politicians are hiding how they spend money. That’s a political mistake., The Washington Post (blog)
- 23 August 2017: Is public participation in procurement the puzzle that it is being made to be? Maybe, The East African
- 14 July 2017: Constitution doesn’t deliver the promised land optimism turns into pessimism, The East African
- 29 June 2017: Reflections of an ‘alien’ in Kenya: After six years I have many reasons to be grateful, The East African
- 26 June 2017: Truth about county revenue, The Star
- 1 April 2017: Mapping health budgets policies economic plans, DNA India
- 6 April 2017: It’s not National Treasury that is blocking economic transformation, GroundUp
- 2 April 2017: The Budget Dilemma MPs Face, The Citizen