Posts Tagged ‘international organization transparency’

  • 20 December 2013

    FSB Transparency Evolves; Still Leaves Information Gaps

    By Toby McIntosh The Financial Stability Board, a small organization with significant influence on the world’s financial sector, has moved to be more open in recent years, but is still too secret according to critical observers. The FSB scored “2” on a transparency scale of 4 used by one nongovernmental organization. “It is one of […]

  • 9 December 2013

    Variety of Transparency Issues Face New G20 Host

    By Toby McIntosh If the G20 is viewed as “a big hot tub party” for world leaders, as one observer put it, then transparency might not seem too desirable. But if viewed as an influential international policy-making institution, the application of transparency standards seems more logical. Not necessarily an easy fit, however, given the peculiarities […]

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