Transparency
Task Force Chairs
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Ann Florini
Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization
National University of Singapore
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Shekhar Singh
Founding Member
National Campaign for People's Right to Information
Transparency describes the openness of institutions—the degree to which outsiders such as citizens or stockholders can monitor and evaluate the actions of insiders, such as government officials or corporate managers. Achieving the appropriate transparency balance is a vital part of confronting both the familiar problems of development and new challenges of globalization, from the local level to the global level of governance. IPD’s Transparency Task Force brings together scholars and activists from all regions who are working to improve global understanding of what transparency can accomplish and how it can be increased.
Upcoming Events
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No upcoming events currently
Past Events
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Governance, Transparency, and Accountability in Financial Institutions and Regulatory Bodies, New York 2009
04/27/09 - 04/28/09 Meeting
New York City, New York, United States
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Transparency Task Force Meeting, Cancun 2005
02/24/05 - 02/26/05 Meeting
Cancun, Mexico
Latest Publications
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Overcoming the Shadow Economy
12/13/16 Network Paper
Joseph Stiglitz, Mark Pieth
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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy
12/11/15 Book
Joseph Stiglitz
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The Right to Know
06/01/07 Book
Ann Florini (Editor)
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Transparency and the Natural Environment
01/01/07 Working Paper
Misha Singh, Shekhar Singh
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Transparency in Environmental Governance
01/01/07 Working Paper
Vivek Ramkumar, Elena Petkova
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Nigeria: a challenging case
01/01/07 Working Paper
Ayo Obe
Transparency describes the openness of institutions—the degree to which outsiders such as citizens or stockholders can monitor and evaluate the actions of insiders, such as government officials or corporate managers. Transparent institutions better reflect the interests of their stakeholders and are less prone to corruption, incompetence, and other abuses of the public interest. But there is also a place for the opposite of transparency—secrecy—in protecting commercial information, ensuring privacy, and enhancing national security. The challenge is to strike a balance between openness and legitimate secrecy. Achieving the appropriate transparency balance is a vital part of confronting both the familiar problems of development and new challenges of globalization, from the local level to the global level of governance.
IPD’s Transparency Task Force brings together scholars and activists from all regions who are working to improve global understanding of what transparency can accomplish and how it can be increased.