Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2024
The 2024 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. It includes indicators on trust in public institutions and satisfaction with public services, as well as evidence on good governance practices in areas such as the policy cycle, budgeting, public procurement, infrastructure planning and delivery, regulatory governance, digital government and open government data. Finally, it provides information on what resources public institutions use and how they are managed, including public finances, public employment, and human resources management. Government at a Glance allows for cross-country comparisons and helps identify trends, best practices, and areas for improvement in the public sector. 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.
Also available in: Spanish
E-procurement and transparency of the public procurement process
Public procurement plays a critical role in the delivery of goods, services and works. Having transparent and innovative procedures is key to ensuring efficient, inclusive and cost-effective public procurement, as well as mitigating corruption risks and inefficient practices. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) throughout all stages of public procurement has several benefits, such as increasing transparency, facilitating the monitoring and evaluation of public procurement spending, improving digital access to public tenders, increasing outreach and competition, and allowing irregularities to be detected more easily (OECD, 2020). It can also help to save money and time by reducing administrative burdens and potential mistakes during the various stages of the public procurement cycle.
Also available in: Spanish
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