anti-corruption

Beyond Disclosure. The Global Usability Gap in Asset and Interest Declaration

Veljanov, Z., Fazekas, M., Klašnja, M., Tóth, B. (2026). Beyond Disclosure. The Global Usability Gap in Asset and Interest Declaration. GTI-R/2026:01, Budapest, Government Transparency Institute.

Asset and interest declarations are a widely used tool for preventing conflicts of interest and detecting unexplained or illicit enrichment among public officials. Yet their effectiveness depends on far more than whether declarations are formally required. The information disclosed must also be accessible, structured, comparable, and capable of being linked with other data. Drawing on …

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Global Contract-level Public Procurement Dataset

Mihály Fazekas, Bence Toth, Aly Abdou and Ahmed Al-Shaibani (2024) Global Contract-level Public Procurement Dataset. Data in Brief. 2024. april.

One-third of total government spending across the globe goes to public procurement, amounting to about 10 trillion dollars a year. Despite its vast size and crucial importance for economic and political developments, there is a lack of globally comparable data on contract awards and tenders run. To fill this gap, this article introduces the Global Public Procurement Dataset (GPPD). Using …

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