collaboratively towards the use of common indicators and increased data transparency. …

This paper investigates the potential benefits for a country from investing in data transparency. The paper shows that … increased data transparency can bring substantive returns in lower costs of external borrowing. This result is obtained by … estimating the impact of public data transparency on sovereign spreads conditional on the country's level of institutional …

effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a sample of mostly developing economies. Data transparency is defined as … the timely production of credible statistics as measured by the Statistical Capacity Index. The paper finds that data … transparency has a positive effect on real gross domestic product per capita, implying a statistically significant impact on …