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Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo
2007
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- Reformas en materia de transparencia: segunda generación de cambio institucional Ana Bellver Administración y Contabilidad Transparency Latin America Statistical Analysis Access to Information Major conceptual contributions of a number of Nobel-laureates in putting forth a framework linking the citizenry's right to know and access to information with development, have already had a major influence in various fields. However, implementation in the matter of transparency- related reforms remains checkered around the globe. Further, in contrast with other dimensions of governance -such as rule of law and regulatory burden-, there is a gap between the extent of the conceptual contributions in the transparency field and the progress on its measurement and empirical analysis, which has been wanting. This work is a contribution attempting to partly fill these empirical and policy-related gaps. The paper contributes to empirics by undertaking an initial construction of a transparency index for 194 countries based on over twenty independent sources. An Unobserved Component Model (UCM) was used to generate the country ratings and the margins of error. The aggregate transparency index comprises two components: economic-institutional transparency, and political transparency. The results emphasize variance. Exemplary transparency is not the exclusive domain of a particular region, and there are transparency-related challenges in countries in each geographical region and income categories. Further, there is a significant within-country variation, with large differences in performance between economic-institutional and political dimensions of transparency. Mindful of the challenges in inferring causality, we also find that transparency is associated with better socio-economic and human development indicators, as well as higher competitiveness and lower corruption. Much progress can be attained without requiring inordinate amount of resources, since transparency reforms can be substantial net "savers" of public resources, and often can serve as a more efficient and less financially costly substitute to creating additional regulations and/or regulatory or governance bodies. A number of concrete examples of specific transparency- related reforms within a strategic framework are provided. 2007 artículo científico 1315-2378 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=357535523001 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3575 Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia application/pdf Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo Revista del CLAD Reforma y Democracia (República Bolivariana de Venezuela) Num.38