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Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020

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This third edition of Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. This publication includes indicators on public finances and economics, public employment, centres of government, regulatory governance, open government data, public sector integrity, public procurement and for the first time core government results (e.g. trust, inequality reduction). Governance indicators are especially useful for monitoring and benchmarking governments' progress in their public sector reforms. Each indicator in the publication is presented in a user-friendly format, consisting of graphs and/or charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings of the data, and a methodological section on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.

English Also available in: Spanish, Portuguese

Asset and interest disclosure system

An effective asset and interest disclosure system can support integrity, transparency and accountability. Depending on their design, declaration forms can be used either to identify, manage and sanction a conflict of interest by determining, for example, whether a public servant’s decision has been compromised by a private interest. They may also be designed to detect illicit enrichment. Information can be collected for both purposes (de Michele and Dassen, 2018). In addition, by making the asset and interest declarations public, the government shows its commitment to transparency and enables accountability by allowing public scrutiny. Comparative empirical evidence has demonstrated the positive effect that a system of declarations can have on a country’s ability to control corruption (Vargas and Schlutz, 2016).

English Also available in: Portuguese, Spanish

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