Towards a global agenda on think tank transparency
Calling think tanks to join a new initiative to promote think tank transparency around the world: After hard deliberation a group of think tank leaders and thinkers have developed a call to...
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Addressing think tank transparency: one of the elephants in the room
Think tank transparency is an issue that is here to stay. A group of funders and think tanks got together at the Think Tank Initiative's Global Exchange in Istanbul to...
A quick and dirty “Transparify-like” assessment of US think tanks
Think tank transparency promises to be one of the most important issues of 2015. In this post we present a DIY rating of some of the most popular US think tanks to...
Will Donor Commitments Lift the Lid on Think Tank Finances?
Think tanks' transparency is not think tanks' responsibility alone. Their funders are responsible for it , too. International development funders could go a long way by...
How transparent are Spanish Think Tanks? A DIY rating with Transparify’s framework
Think tank transparency is emerging as a key issue for 2015. Being influential and popular is no longer enough when it comes to assessing think tanks' value. In this post,...
The one billion dollar business: American think tanks
Transparify has shared some interesting data on 21 US think tanks. We put together a few data visualisations to see if we could make a bit more sense of the data. The...
Transparency for think tanks: the latest fashion or an urgent reform?
This post was written by Orazio Bellettini, Executive Director of Grupo FARO in Ecuador. It presents ideas and reflections generated on the panel “From Research to...
A quick and dirty Transparify-like analysis of Latin American think tanks
This post presents another Quick and Dirty Transparify rating of a group of Latin American think tanks. It is intended as a kick starter for a greater conversation on...
The Brookings Institution: What Do Its Numbers Tell Us?
Think tanks often rely on numbers to argue for sound policy, to shed light on a complex situation or track changes over time. Curiously, though, we rarely apply numbers to...
Economic downturn affects think tank funding
The global financial crisis has caused another kind of recession -a recession in foreign funding for think tanks. According to an article in the Research website, some think tanks in Sub -...
Foreign funding and social science research in Peru
Kelly Bay, Cecilia Perla and Richard Snyder undertook, back in 2008, a study of the way foreign funding affects social science research in Peru. Its findings are quite...
Chinese think tanks are more intellectually independent than you think
Most people I talk to about think tanks in China seem rather doubtful of the possibly of there being any 'real' think tanks there. How could they if they are all...