Transparency

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Blog Post

Aid Transparency and Subsidies to Private Companies: A First Step, But a Long Road Ahead

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

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 PAPER

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 NOTE

Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? It Depends

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!