Search Results - subject:"ACCESS TO INFORMATION"

Maldives: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender gap requires attention. Maldives has made great progress in improving maternal health and has achieved MDG. The total fertility rate has declined to 2.3 in 2012. Contraceptive use...

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Axing the Access - Threats to Free Access to Information Especially in Digital Media

Gagrani, Harsh - 2014

The dawn of digital technologies in the latter half of the twentieth century has worried the copyright enthusiasts, mainly because of the ease with which information can flow through such technologies, including a vast world of copyrighted materials. Legislations are being enacted and...

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Nowhere to go? : surveillance, privacy rules and trade talks

Abbott, Roderick - 2014

This policy brief outlines the chronology of the developments since Edward Snowden leaked the documents on large-scale electronic surveillance, including PRISM and Tempora programmes, the policy implications and the public's response. It concludes that the nature of the debate has shifted from a...

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Transparent Government and Business Regulation : "Open for Business?"

Geginat, Carolin; Saltane, Valentina - 2014

This paper presents new indicators for 185 economies measuring the accessibility of business regulatory information. The paper shows that the new data can serve as meaningful proxies for the overall transparency of governments and the new data have explanatory power for the quality of business...

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Does Access to Information Empower the Poor? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Narayan, Ambar; Narita, Renata; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2014

This paper summarizes the results of the impact evaluation of the Access to Information pilot project on empowerment of …-up round in mid-2012. No impact is found on awareness and the use of information under the specific Access to Information rules …. However, it is observed that individuals address more general complaints to governments as a result of the Access to …

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Composite Democratic Legitimation in Europe : The Role of Transparency and Access to Information

Heritier, Adrienne - 2014

question of relationship between the legimatory components of access to information and transparency, on the one hand, and the … other. While transparency and access to information stress the input-oriented goals of democratic legitimation, that is the … various strands of democratic legitimation are described, and transparency, and access to information are situated in the …

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Why Trade Agreements are not Setting Information Free : The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security

Aaronson, Susan Ariel - 2014

This article examines how the United States and the European Union (the EU) use trade agreements to both advance and restrict the free flow of information, and to promote Internet freedom. This issue is not new: in the 1980s, with the advent of faster computers, software and satellites,...

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Empowerment and Public Service Delivery in Developing Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

of information and communication technology (ICT) to streamline bureaucratic processes, widen access to information, and …

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The Watchdog Reassessed : Press Freedom, Access to Information and Corruption

Dutta, Nabamita; Roy, Sanjukta - 2013

and accountable to the masses. Another strand of literature analyzes how greater access to information encourages good … governance. In this paper we take a step further. We emphasize that, press freedom and access to information, are two pillars of … countries, with lower press freedom, greater access to information may not mitigate corruption, there is a beneficial impact for …

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Information function of civil budget

Kiselev, Anatoly; Svetlichnaya, Tatyana; Petrov, Nikolay; … - In: International Journal of Law and Management 60 (2018) 3, pp. 798-803

Purpose The formation of an information society in Russia requires new approaches in the implementation of citizen’s rights to access information. At a modern time, when the resources of internet are available to almost everyone, the modern financial and legal institutions adapt or are obliged...

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