Good governance
This section details initiatives to make government a competitive advantage. It includes analysis and reports of government initiatives, as well as data on accountability and performance measures.
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Transparency International Czech Republic asks MPs to push forward debate, adopt reform of political finance | OECD: Financing Democracy report
Transparency International Czech Republic asks Czech MPs to push forward debate and adopt reform of political party financing. The draft act has been waiting for its turn in the Chamber of Deputies for quite some time. The bill proposes establishing of an authority that would monitor political party financing, impose sanctions and be in charge of public oversight over political finance, among others. One of the problems TI Czech Republic mentioned in their analysis relates to "transparent accounts" of political parties; most political parties made publicly accessible information on money inflows only, and not the outflows...
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EconLab: Czech single-bid procurement in 2015: Czech Republic among worst EU member states
Single-bid procurement is a case of public procurement where there is only one bid. In 2015, there were 6,409 such tenders in the Czech Republic reaching total volume of EUR 2 bn. This is the highest number of such tenders recorded so far. Although labelled as highly exceptional form of public procurement, they accounted for approximately 1/3 of all tenders in the country, which places the Czech Republic into a group of the worst performing countries in the EU...
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AmCham Policy Report 2016, Issue 1 - February 1
AmCham published its 1st Policy Report on Good Governance and Economic Development in 2016.
Last fall, AmCham debated what our advocacy priorities should be for 2016. We made a strategic choice. We would get back to what we like to do: pursue economic development issues. Since so many others had jumped into the fight against corruption, we felt we could cut back our hours there, and start examining how research could contribute to higher value-added exports, or how the Prague-Brno corridor could become the primary catalyst for the Central European region. We slid good government to fourth, and last, place among our economic priorities. Read the report...
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