Promoting Fiscal Openness

Feb 1, 2015

February, 2015 | By Alasdair Roberts (GIFT) and the International Budget Partnership

Promoting Fiscal OpennessA transparency policy is built upon a theory of change. This theory is sometimes referred to as the program logic. All transparency policies have program logics, although the program logic is not always articulated with sufficient clarity. Broadly speaking, transparency policies suffer from two types of logic failure.

This paper explores this predicament with regard to the promotion of fiscal openness.

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Promoting Fiscal Openness