Data & Transparency

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Running the Hurdles: A Sneak Peek into MCC’s Upcoming Country Eligibility Decisions

September 30, 2014
In December, MCC’s Board of Directors will meet to determine which countries will be eligible for FY2015 funding. While the agency’s annual country scorecards won’t be ready for a few months, updated corruption and democracy data are available now.
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Latest Move against Tax Avoidance Good but Not Great

September 22, 2014
OECD countries and others have agreed on a new standard for multinational companies to report their economic activities, including profits and tax payments, on a country-by-country basis.
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Bad Tax Data, Bad Tax Research? Introducing the New Government Revenue Dataset

September 16, 2014
Did you know that Iran had tax revenues greater than its GDP for three years in the late 1980s? Or at least that’s the impression you’d get if you — like many researchers — were to combine tax data from the IMF’s Government Financial Statistics and the GDP series from t...
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Harmonizing Global Health Data Collection: We’re Detecting a Pulse!

September 12, 2014
Another year, another attempt at harmonizing global health data collection. This time around, the effort comes from a multiagency working group comprised of representatives from donor agencies and international organizations, in collaboration with IHP+.