Roads, Needles, Mines: What Is Your Government Signing on Your Behalf? (The Guardian)

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Governments routinely sign multibillion-dollar contracts for infrastructure and services alongside agreements over the use of public property such as oil or gas deposits. The Development Gateway Market, which registers a small proportion of global government tenders for goods and services, adds as many as 32,000 tenders a week. However, usually, the resulting contracts remain locked in a cabinet, known only to a few government officials and company employees. That’s an unnecessary limit on freedom of information: citizens have the right to know what the government is signing on their behalf. But it is also a real loss to efficient government.

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