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dc.titleInformation Disclosure and the Performance of Public Investment: The Case of Costa Rica
dc.contributor.authorRossi, Martín
dc.contributor.authorVázquez, Antonia
dc.contributor.authorVieyra, Juan Cruz
dc.contributor.orgunitInstitutional Capacity of the State Division
dc.coverageCosta Rica
dc.date.available2020-08-27T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-08-27T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides experimental evidence about the causal impact of disclosing information related to public investment projects on the performance of these projects. Specifically, it analyzes the impact of the launch of the MapaInversiones platform on the physical and financial progress of public investment projects in Costa Rica. The study finds that published projects (the treatment group) perform better than unpublished projects (the control group). Three months after the release of MapaInversiones, financial progress of public investment projects uploaded onto the platform increased by 18 percentage points, and physical progress increased by 8 percentage points compared to unpublished projects. A year after the intervention, financial progress of treated projects was approximately 15 percentage points higher relative to control projects, while the increase in physical progress after 1 year of launching the platform was approximately 1 percentage point.
dc.format.extent24
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002623
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Information-Disclosure-and-the-Performance-of-Public-Investment-The-Case-of-Costa-Rica.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Divulgacion-de-informacion-y-desempeno-de-la-inversion-publica-El-caso-de-Costa-Rica.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectInnovation
dc.subjectPublic Investment
dc.subjectOpen Government
dc.subjectTransparency and Anticorruption
dc.subjectInvestment Project
dc.subjectPublic Service Delivery
dc.subjectInvestment Platform
dc.subject.jelcodeO31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeD73 - Bureaucracy • Administrative Processes in Public Organizations • Corruption
dc.subject.jelcodeH83 - Public Administration • Public Sector Accounting and Audits
dc.subject.jelcodeH50 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
dc.subject.jelcodeL78 - Government Policy
dc.subject.keywordstransparency;monitoring;Investment projects;digital innovation;efficiency
dc.typeDiscussion Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-DP-00795
idb.operationRG-T3655
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