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Fiscal Transparency (T-Index) 2021

A composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the online availability of public expenditure information.

Indicator Factsheet
Theme Transparency
Component Fiscal Transparency
Dataset Transparency Index
NameFiscal Transparency (T-Index)
DescriptionA composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the online availability of public expenditure information.
Methodology
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This indicator consists of the standardized sum of individual scores for the following items in the de facto Transparency Index: -Are past public expenditures published online? -Is there a centralized public procurement portal where both tenders and contract awards are posted? -Have incoming and outgoing donor funds’ allocations been published? Each item can yield a full, partial, or nil score, the final value has been standardized and aggregated into a score on a scale of 10.
ScaleLow degree of availability of public information to High degree of availability of public information
Note: For this indicator, max values are better.
Methodology https://corruptionrisk.org/t-index-methodology/
Attribution This Indicator was derived from the T-Index. The T-Index is based on independent data collection and review by the ERCAS team.


Other Indicators of the Fiscal Transparency component

Budget Transparency

This Indicator represents the mean value of several questions from the Open Budget Survey, measuring transparency in the Executive’s Budget Proposal