Transparency

More from the Series

Blog Post
Gender Equality Is 108 Years Away. Can Open Government Close the Gap?
Megan O'Donnell
and
Ania Calderon
November 20, 2019
Blog Post
Aid Transparency and Subsidies to Private Companies: A First Step, But a Long Road Ahead
Charles Kenny
October 10, 2019
Today the IFC announced a step forward in its transparency around the use of aid resources to finance private companies. That’s right and proper: When scarce aid, and scarce tax resources, are used to support private firms, citizens of donor countries and recipient countries alike ha...
Blog Post
Measuring the Impact of Open Contracting
Charles Kenny
June 11, 2019
In a new CGD working paper, we try to measure the impact of one of the most significant open contracting reforms worldwide, which took place in Ukraine in the last few years. Since 2015, the country has overhauled its procurement system, including the introduction of an e-procurement platform c...
WORKING PAPERS
Examining the Impact of E-Procurement in Ukraine
Artur Kovalchuk et al.
June 11, 2019
This paper examines the impact of Ukraine’s ambitious procurement reform on outcomes amongst a set of procurements that used competitive tendering. This paper examines the impact of ProZorro and reform on contracts that were procured competitively both prior to and after the introduction of th...
CGD NOTES
Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? It Depends
Kalipso Chalkidou
and
Adrian Towse
April 03, 2019
Is price transparency really the answer to healthcare systems’ fiscal sustainability challenges as they strive to expand access to new technologies or even merely sustain provision within strained public budgets? Well, it depends!
WORKING PAPERS
The Future of Global Health Procurement: Issues around Pricing Transparency - Working Paper 507
Mikel Berdud et al.
April 03, 2019
This paper focuses on the role that price transparency may play in the efficient and effective procurement of medicines by middle- and low-income countries. Will making prices publicly available make procurement more efficient and cost-effective medicines more accessible? We conclude that transparen...
Blog Post
UK Aid Watchdog to CDC: Time to be More Accountable, More Transparent on Development Finance
Vijaya Ramachandran
and
Arthur Baker
March 28, 2019
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) issued a report this week on the performance of CDC–the UK’s development finance institution–in low-income and fragile states. ICAI gives CDC an Amber/Red rating on its performance, which means “unsatisfactory achieve...