Overview and synthesis: The political economy of fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability around the world

Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-50

  Khagram, Sanjeev ^a   De Renzio, Paolo ^b   Fung, Archon ^c  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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