, unfortunately, have coincided with some serious backsliding in the transparency and timeliness of financial information, notably at …

International Budget Partnership (IBP), the Global Initiative for Financial Transparency and the Open Government Partnership have … for the operational analysis of online information openness and transparency of the budget process at the local level. The … developed methodology used two criteria: (1) the level of transparency of the local budget and (2) an assessment of authority …

(TOPSIS) and analyzes the effect of fiscal transparency on public service quality. The results show that the public service … quality in the 12 coastal provinces and cities of China studied is relatively high, and fiscal transparency has a positive … effect on public service quality. This analysis showed that an increase of 1% in fiscal transparency would lead to an …

The disclosure of fiscal and economic forecasts represents an increasingly important pillar of government transparency …. Yet, a measure of transparency in fiscal and economic forecasts is presently missing. This article exploits the …-country measure of transparency in government forecasts and to investigate its characteristics and drivers. The analysis reveals that …