Transparify has published its 2015 think tank transparency report in which it rates over 160 think tanks located in 47 countries worldwide.
To read the report follow the link: 2015 REPORT and accompanying PRESS RELEASE.
According to Transparify these are the most transparent once (of those that were rated) -and they are from all over the world:
- African Economic Research Consortium (Kenya)
- Bruegel (Belgium)
- Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) (Montenegro)
- Center for Global Development (United States)
- Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM) (Macedonia)
- Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (Bulgaria)
- Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) (Canada)
- Centre for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) (Montenegro)
- Centre for Policy Research (India)
- Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) (Georgia)
- European Centre for Development and Policy Management (ECDPM) (Netherlands)
- European Policy Institute – Skopje (Macedonia)
- Grupo FARO (Ecuador)
- IEA Kenya (Kenya)
- Institute Alternative (IA) (Montenegro)
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore)
- Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) (Brazil)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- JumpStart Georgia (Georgia)
- Natural Resource Governance Institute (United States) (FORMERLY: Revenue Watch Institute (RWI))
- Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI) (Norway)
- Pew Research Center (United States)
- Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS) (Czech Republic)
- Reactor – Research in Action (Macedonia)
- Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) (Pakistan)
- Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (Germany)
- Stimson Center (United States)
- Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Sweden)
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (Sweden)
- Transparency International – Georgia (Georgia)
- Woodrow Wilson Center (United States)
- World Resources Institute (United States)
Transparify has also assembled a series of excellent contributions from think tanks themselves:
- the Natural Resource Governance Institute,
- the Social Policy and Development Centre, and
- the Stimson Center
For more ratings (not done by Transparify):
- The Think Tank Initiative 2014
- The Knowledge Sector Initiative 2014
- A group of Latin American think tanks 2014
- Spanish think tanks 2015
- US think tanks (not rated by Transparify) 2015