IBP Releases the Findings of the Open Budget Survey (2021); Yemen Scores Zero for the Third Time

The International Budget Partnership (IBP) released yesterday, May 31, 2022, the findings of the 2021 Open Budget Survey (OBS), conducted biannually in 120 countries across the world including Yemen. Yemen has scored zero for the third time on the Open Budget Index (OBI) published by the Washington-based International Budget Partnership (IBP). The index, the world’s only independent, comparable measure of budget transparency, participation, and oversight, is a composite score based on the OBS data. The research work for this survey was carried out in Yemen by the Social Research and Development Center (SRDC), an independent, non-partisan and non-profit research and community development organization. OBS measures three different aspects relating to state budgets which are budget transparency, participation and oversight. These aspects include assessing public access to central government budgetmore...

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