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Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2024

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The 2024 edition of Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. It includes indicators on trust in public institutions and satisfaction with public services, as well as evidence on good governance practices in areas such as the policy cycle, budgeting, public procurement, infrastructure planning and delivery, regulatory governance, digital government and open government data. Finally, it provides information on what resources public institutions use and how they are managed, including public finances, public employment, and human resources management. Government at a Glance allows for cross-country comparisons and helps identify trends, best practices, and areas for improvement in the public sector. Governance indicators are especially useful for monitoring and benchmarking governments’ progress in their public sector reforms. Each indicator in the publication is presented in a user‑friendly format, consisting of graphs and/or charts illustrating variations across countries and over time, brief descriptive analyses highlighting the major findings of the data, and a methodological section on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.

English Also available in: Spanish

Open, inclusive and transparent infrastructure projects

Open, inclusive and transparent infrastructure projects play a pivotal role in facilitating stakeholder participation, but also in having competitive procurement process to achieve projects’ desired objectives. When stakeholders see their input has a tangible impact on decisions, such as in the development of infrastructure plans, this fortifies their trust, creating a positive cycle of increased and improved participation. This trust cultivates a sense of ownership among stakeholders, underlining the importance of their voices (OECD, 2022). Likewise, allowing the participation of foreign or regional firms from outside the project area, deterring bid-rigging (i.e. contractors agreeing in advance who will win the bid) and promoting e-procurement can all help create an open and inclusive projects. To encourage competitive procurement processes that provide an equal opportunity to bidders of all sizes, governments can also streamline administrative procedures, facilitate subcontracting opportunities and enable small companies to participate in contracts that exceed their budgets.

English Also available in: Spanish

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