Budget and purchasing/contracting transparency at the subnational level in Argentina: evolution between 2019-2023

Authors

  • Marcelo Capello Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. IERAL
  • Vanessa Toselli Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. IERAL
  • Paula Gonzalez IERAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51915/ret.348

Keywords:

transparency, budget, contracting, public purchases

Abstract

The article analyzes the level of transparency in budgetary matters and public purchases/contracting in the most populated municipalities of the Argentine Republic, measured through an index on websites, taking as reference the experience of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The survey was carried out five consecutive years, from 2019 to 2023, allowing us to know the evolution of transparency and which are the aspects in which the performance of all municipalities presents the worst results. Of the general index composed of eight axes, the analysis reveals that the axes on budget and public contracts/tenders are those in which performance has been lowest and with the least positive evolution. Based on this observation, the indicators that make up these two axes are analyzed in detail to carry out a diagnosis on what policies would be necessary to carry out to effectively advance and/or improve towards transparent management of public resources, a fundamental principle for modern democratic governments including those at the municipal level.

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Author Biographies

Marcelo Capello, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. IERAL

Marcelo Capello is an economist and academic on Public Sector Economics and Fiscal Federalism. He graduated in Economics from the National University of Córdoba (1991) and Master in Economics from Georgetown University-Universidad Alberto Hurtado (2002). He is currently vice president of the Institute for Studies on the Reality of Argentina and Latin America (IERAL) of the Mediterranean Foundation. He is also a professor on Public Economics and Federalism in the Economics program at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) and Director of the Master's Degree in Public Economics, Social and Regional Policies at UNC. He teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Policy at UCC, UBP and UES21. Since 2018, he has been vice president of the Ibero-American Association of Local Financing (AIFIL) and member of the organizing commission of the International Conference on Public Finance (JIFP), the Seminar on Fiscal Federalism (SFF) and the Ibero-American Conference on Local Financing (JIFL). Former Director of the UNC Economics program. He is or has been a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Federal Investment Council (CFI). He received the 1996 awards from the ARCOR Foundation and the FACPCE for research work related to Fiscal Federalism.

Vanessa Toselli, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. IERAL

Graduate in Economics from the National University of Córdoba. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from the National University of Córdoba, specializing in the impact of public policies, governance, modernization and transparency. She is a regular teacher at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, the Catholic University of Córdoba and the University College of Journalism, in the subjects Argentine Economic Policy, Economic and Social History and Macroeconomics. She teaches specializations and postgraduate courses on Fiscal Policy. She has been an international professor at the University of Viadrina, Frankfurt – Germany. She is a researcher at IERAL – Fundación Mediterránea, specialist in the area of Subnational Finance, Fiscal Federalism, Local Development, Local Governments and Transparency and Modernization of the State. She is co-author of various academic research works and IERAL publications, in relation to various topics: Transparency and Governance, Situation and Dynamics of the Real Economy, National and Subnational Taxes, among others.

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2024-12-11

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Capello, M., Toselli, V., & Gonzalez, P. (2024). Budget and purchasing/contracting transparency at the subnational level in Argentina: evolution between 2019-2023. Spanish Journal of Transparency, (20), 183–213. https://doi.org/10.51915/ret.348

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No. 20 (2024): Spanish Journal of Transparency issue 20 (Second semester. July - December 2024)

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