Budget transparency at all-time low: report

The government’s budget transparency score has fallen to its lowest measure on record, according to a recent survey, but officials remain optimistic that the score will improve in the future.

Cambodia’s score of eight out of 100 in 2015’s Open Budget Survey put it near the very bottom of the 102 countries examined, while Myanmar was the only country listed as faring worse in the region.

But the score was a disappointment even when compared to Cambodia’s own track record, with the Kingdom declining seven points from the 15 it scored in 2012, when results for Cambodia were last released.

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