transparency

(noun)

(figuratively) openness, degree of accessibility to view

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Examples of transparency in the following topics:

  • Humanitarian Efforts

    • With humanitarian aid efforts sometimes criticized for a lack of transparency, the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve its accountability, quality and performance.

  • Consumer Interest Groups

    • They also provide important checks and balances to business interests, make market exchanges more transparent, and help consumers make more informed choices.

  • Regulating Congressional Lobbyists

    • There are numerous regulations governing the practice of lobbying, often ones requiring transparency and disclosure.
    • Lobbyists sometimes support rules requiring greater transparency and disclosure: "Our profession is at a critical point where we can either embrace the constructive changes and reforms by Congress or we can seek out loopholes and continue the slippery slide into history along side the ranks of snake oil salesmen."

  • The Reforms of 1995

    • Definitions: The LDA defines a number of provisions attempting to maintain a degree of transparency in the activities of lobbyists.

  • Regulatory Commissions

    • Additionally, regulatory agencies are designed to be transparent, such that their decisions and activities are able to be evaluated by the public and by legal review boards.

  • The Goals of Economic Policy

    • A rule-based policy can be more credible, because it is more transparent and easier to anticipate.

  • Immigration Reform

    • Other calls for reform include increased transparency at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and more diversity of experience among immigration judges, the majority of whom previously held positions adversarial to immigrants.

  • Termination

    • Such actions can include data gathering and analysis, organizational restructuring, improving human resource management and training, enhancing pay and benefits while assuring sustainability under overall fiscal constraints, and strengthening measures for public participation, transparency, and combating corruption.