Central government budget transparency in Croatia: in spite of noteworthy achievements, there is still a lot of room for improvement

Abstract

The International Budget Partnership (IBP), a non-profit Washington based organisation, on April 29 released the Open Budget Index 2019. Croatia scored 68 out of a possible 100, thus ranking among countries that release substantial information on the central government budget. However, regardless of considerable progress from the previous round of the research (2017), there are still many areas that can and should be improved.