'absence of transparency' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize the lack of openness and accessibility of information or activities. For example: "The government's policies on the matter remained unclear, due to the absence of transparency".
There is also an absence of transparency about what money there is.
Today, the same absence of transparency and regulation exists in cricket.
In the absence of transparency most individuals will think twice about exercising this fundamental right and there will have been a significant erosion of freedoms we hold dear.
Not all offshore activity is harmful to Africa's interests but the absence of transparency blurs the lines between legitimate and illicit activity.
We need to look again at the government's abandonment of the "community cohesion" criteria and the absence of transparency in the free school system.
"In the absence of transparency and clarity, investors are going to assume a value that will be conservative and then add a risk premium".
In the absence of widespread transparency by companies, Web sites are filling the gap.
It is the absence of this transparency that often allows poor care to go undetected," he said.
Vick added: "The fear is that, when the private sector is involved, there can be an absence of the transparency that has become a reassuring feature of the NHS.
Some companies are already doing this but in the absence of the transparency and accountability that goes with a vibrant civil society and a free media, it's hard to tell just how much progress is being made.
This policy of "systematic non-disclosure"–the absence of complete transparency about what financial firms really owe and are owed left only its CEOs and their top consiglieres in a position to know what their companies really owned and owed.
