Why Open Government? Looking at incentives for fiscal openness through the eyes of experts and reform champions
- Paolo de Renzio
- Oct 2017
- Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT), International Budget Partnership (IBP)
- International
In order to promote a deeper understanding around the incentives that governments face for the adoption, implementation and sustaining of fiscal openness reforms, GIFT has undertaken additional research between 2014-17, structured around two new components. This note summarizes the main issues and findings from these two components cum projects, namely : a) A set of think-pieces written by senior academics and practitioners, based on their own past research and policy experience, aimed at gathering the reflections and insights of individuals who have studied, thought about and worked with fiscal openness reforms over many years and across different country contexts. b) A set of interviews with politicians and senior officials considered “reform champions” in their respective countries, to gather first-hand personal testimonies from people at the forefront of successful fiscal openness reforms about the challenges that they faced during the various stages of the reform process, from formulation to implementation. The note tries to identify interesting commonalities and overlaps between the two projects, and concludes with recommendations to strengthen incentives for fiscal openness.
