Monitoring Public Investment: The Impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
Nov 2019
Subject
Innovation;
Public Investment;
Transparency and Anticorruption
JEL code
O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives;
O54 - Latin America • Caribbean;
D73 - Bureaucracy • Administrative Processes in Public Organizations • Corruption;
H83 - Public Administration • Public Sector Accounting and Audits;
H50 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General;
L78 - Government Policy
Country
Colombia
Category
Working Papers
This paper analyzes the impact of MapaRegalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to reduce the cost incurred by public officials and citizens when monitoring the use of royalties. The main finding is that after the release of MapaRegalías, public investment projects financed with royalties showed an average increase in efficiency of execution of 7.996 percentage points.
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