Data & Transparency

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Complete Contract Transparency as a Cost of Doing Business

May 19, 2015
In a blog post on the World Bank’s website, Marcos Siqueira lays out the case for total public contract transparency, including disclosure of unredacted contracts, associated financial deals, unredacted bids, unredacted amendments, performance reports, financial data of the project c...
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The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy - Working Paper 404

May 19, 2015
Both academic research and public policy debate around tax havens and offshore finance typically suffer from a lack of definitional consistency. Unsurprisingly then, there is little agreement about which jurisdictions ought to be considered as tax havens—or which policy measures would result i...
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A Dive into New Data on “the MCC Effect”

May 18, 2015
A new report from AidData and William and Mary is out, and some of its findings raise questions about the “MCC Effect,” the claim that countries enact policy reforms in order to become more competitive for MCC funding.