Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 45. In practice, the asset disclosure process for senior officials of the three branches of government (heads of state and government, ministers, members of Parliament, judges, etc.) is effective.
A 100 score is earned where all the following conditions are met:
1) senior officials of the three branches of government file their asset disclosures,
2) their disclosures contain detailed information about assets belonging to them and their immediate family (including real estate, movable property, cash, salaries, and income from investments), and
3) disclosures are available to the public online or within two weeks of request at the cost of photocopying.
A 50 score is earned where any of the following conditions apply:
1) not all senior officials of the three branches of government file their asset disclosures,
2) their disclosures don't contain detailed information about them and their immediate family, or
3) disclosures are not always available to the public (they're not online, paper versions take more than two weeks to obtain, or costs are higher than photocopying).
A 0 score is earned where at least one of the following conditions apply:
1) senior officials of the three branches of government routinely fail to file asset disclosures,
2) asset disclosures contain so little information they are useless (e.g. they don't disclose assets of the immediate family, or cite real estate but not movable property, cash, salaries, and income from investments), or
3) asset disclosures are not available to the public. A 0 score is also earned where no law requires asset disclosures.
Type of variable: Continuous
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| Dataset | No. Countries |
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| Standard cross-section: | 54 |
| Standard time-series: | 54 |