Topics such as fiscal policy, accountability, and fiscal justice don’t usually generate sweeping media coverage. Yet recent exposés such as the Panama Papers show that the media can still make powerful contributions to the greater fiscal transparency cause.
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Social movements deploying various nonviolent tactics have consistently demonstrated the ability to achieve genuine – sometimes transformative – shifts in policy and government performance. The underlying dynamic involves grassroots organizing to amplify citizen voices and wield power. But can such bottom-up citizen initiatives be fostered to advance fiscal governance?
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India provides an outstanding example of how social movements have creatively and effectively used transparency initiatives to enforce a form of fiscal accountability that connects allocations, expenditure, and policy with people and their priorities.
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