TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petrie,Murray
TI  - Promoting Fiscal Transparency the Complementary Roles of the Imf, Financial Markets and Civil Society
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451860137 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Budget Activities
KW  - imf
KW  - Budget Transparency
KW  - Fiscal Data
KW  - Fiscal Transparency Assessments
KW  - Public Economics: General
KW  - Argentina
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Poland
KW  - South Africa
N2  - This paper explores initiatives to date by the IMF, financial markets, and civil society organizations to assess and utilize information on fiscal transparency. The results of surveys and interviews of rating agency analysts and surveys of civil society organizations on their level of awareness of, and use of IMF fiscal transparency assessments are presented. The paper then considers the relative roles of the IMF, the private sector, and civil society organizations in assessing and promoting fiscal transparency, and the scope for greater complementarity among their roles. The paper concludes with a number of suggestions for making the IMF's fiscal transparency initiatives more effective
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