Measuring and Promoting Budget Transparency: The Open Budget Index as a Research and Advocacy Tool

Governance

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 607-616

  De Renzio, Paolo ^a   Masud, Harika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b International Budget Partnership ^*  (United States)

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EID: 79959722178     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2011.01539.x     Document Type: Article

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