included in the Fund's Fiscal Transparency Code. Panama's ratings are lower than those of regional comparators, especially in … the area of fiscal risks. The team developed high-priority recommendations to improve Panama's fiscal transparency …

South Africa has many elements of sound fiscal transparency practices. Based on an assessment of fiscal transparency … practices against the IMF's Fiscal Transparency Code, South Africa's practices are strongest in fiscal reporting, followed by …

This paper examines how fiscal transparency is linked to bank development. It also hypothesizes that the effect is … enhance bank development. Our panel regressions and the mediation analysis also suggest that the effect of fiscal transparency … mediated by reasonable channel(s). Drawing upon a panel dataset of emerging and developing economies, we find that fiscal …