Transparency and Development

Fostering Transparency in Policy Development Processes - A Development Transparency Framework

Transparency is a well-articulated requirement in policy and project development processes. To the present time, we mostly see approaches documenting the workflow or the results of these processes, but lack a representation of the discourse which produced the results. However, the arguments which have been put forward in the development of a policy document the reasoning for the details of the ...

Technology Development for Nuclear Transparency Applications

Nuclear energy has an important role in the mix of energy supplies for the coming years, yet is a source of concern on safety and proliferation grounds. The nuclear energy industry addresses these concerns by using transparency to demonstrate compliance with international treaties and conventions and to show the public that operations are safe and emissions are within authorized limits. Transpa...

Success, Failure, and Transparency in Biomarker-Based Drug Development

Biomarkers are frequently proposed as a way of identifying targets and facilitating the evaluation of new drugs. When these chemical or genetic indicators are used as surrogate measures, the effects of drugs can be observed using smaller and shorter trials. However, even though biomarkers are based on plausible biological hypotheses, many end up failing to predict which drugs will later succeed...

On bias and transparency in the development of influential recommendations.

Central Bank Transparency and Monetary Policy Effectiveness

The paper concentrates on the conditions, contingencies and determinants of central bank transparency and communication. From the state of the economy and the quality of national institutions, to the structure of monetary policy committees, the personality of the governor and the nature of the monetary policy framework - with a particular focus on the case of inflation targeting, there i...