South Africa has many elements of sound fiscal transparency practices. Based on an assessment of fiscal transparency … practices against the IMF's Fiscal Transparency Code, South Africa's practices are strongest in fiscal reporting, followed by … South Africa's fiscal reporting, budget transparency, and management of fiscal risks …

This paper examines how fiscal transparency is linked to bank development. It also hypothesizes that the effect is … transparency is positively related to the private credit and to the ratio of liquid assets, implying that more transparent policies … enhance bank development. Our panel regressions and the mediation analysis also suggest that the effect of fiscal transparency …

This paper evaluates positive and negative media coverage of online local budget transparency (OLBT) and its impact on … budget transparency in Croatian local administrative units in 2018. Using multinomial logistic regression, research confirmed … a strong impact of media coverage on budget transparency. Positive media coverage of OLBT increases the probability that …

stakes – and, unfortunately, coincided with some serious backsliding in the transparency and timeliness of financial …

. At the same time, they may impair fiscal transparency and offer politicians discretion in the presence of strict fiscal …