Open Budget Survey 2010

Publisher	International Budget Partnership (IBP)
Year of Publication	2010
Category	Report
County	All/General
Description	Over the past decade several developments have led to a growing emphasis worldwide on creating open budget systems. Citizens have increasingly asserted that they should know how their governments are using public funds and other resources of their countries. Experts have increasingly concluded that making budgets transparent and building adequate checks and balances into the budget process can enhance the credibility and prioritization of policy decisions, limit corrupt and wasteful spending, and facilitate access to international financial markets. Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to countrylevel actions to meet international development commitments like the Millennium Development Goals, to accounting for the revenues from the sale of natural resources, and to examining the amount of international aid given to developing countries and how it is spent.
Tags	001d795334de765b40d03a04c59e97f0, Public Finance
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