The International Budget Partnership collaborates with a large and diverse network of civil society organizations around the world to fight poverty and improve governance by reforming government budget systems and influencing budget policies. At the heart of this work are efforts to make government budgeting more transparent and participatory, more responsive to national priorities, better able to resist corruption, and more efficient and effective.

In support of this collaboration, the IBP provides technical and financial assistance, comparative research opportunities, information exchange, and peer networking. It does this through the following programs and activities:

Budget Work Around the World

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Resource Dependence and Budget Transparency

Are natural resource abundance and opaque budgets inextricably linked? The Open Budget Survey 2008—a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries—finds that resource-dependent countries tend to be less transparent than countries that are not resource dependent.

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