Fazekas, M. – King, L. P. – Tóth, I. J.: Hidden Depths. The Case of Hungary. In: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (ed.): Controlling Corruption in Europe. The Anticorruption Report Vol. 1., Barbara Budrich Publishers. Opladen – Berlin – Toronto. 2013. pp. 74-85.
This report investigates corruption risk of EU funds spending in Hungary within the framework of the Public Procurement Law. Its finding is that in spite of what is a tight regulatory framework EU funds are likely to fuel the abuse …
Presentation of Bence Tóth and Mihály Fazekas at Open Contract Data Standard‘s workshop 5th November 2015 in London, UK:
Presentation of Ágnes Czibik at SELDI‘s conference “Enhancing CSOs Advocacacy Efforts for Countering Corruption in Critical Sectors in Southeast Europe”, Podgorica Montenegro, 29th October 2015
Presentation of Mihály Fazekas at the “Hands-on Workshop” on progress and future planning on using data
to identify and address corruption in procurement, World Bank, Washington DC, 5/10/2015
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The presentation of Mihály Fazekas at „Making Bulgaria’s Anticorruption Policy Work” conference of ANTICORRP in Sofia on 28th July 2015.
Mihály Fazekas – Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett (2015): Corruption Risks in UK Public Procurement and New Anti-Corruption Tools. GTI-R/2015:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute.
The UK government has taken a number of important steps to ensure that public procurement is conducted to the highest standards, and to make procurement markets more competitive. The work of the Crown Commercial Service has substantially professionalised public procurement while reforms to rules around open data have made the UK government one of the most transparent in the …
A dataset and codes for analysis are released to support the workshop held by Mihály Fazekas at the conference: “Policy-making in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges” at the University of Cambridge on the 17th of June 2015. The data and codes are solely for demonstrating some interesting ways structured public procurement data can be used to measure favouritism in government contracting.
UK government supplier data (2009-2013): Public procurement supplier level dataset, halfyearly aggregation, contracts …