Sentence examples for open governments from inspiring English sources

Alluding to the work of Amartya Sen, he contended that open governments were conducive to economic prosperity, whereas "closed governments breed poverty".

Open governments can enable effective civil society participation and oversight by providing citizens with user-centred information about the public sector's activities, performance and decision-processes.

Mr. Obama, at turns sweeping and philosophical, told the delegates and world leaders that it was "our destiny" to endure a time of recession, war and conflict, and spoke out broadly in support of open governments and human rights.

Spain is one of the least open governments in the developed world, and one of only three in Europe, along with Cyprus and Luxembourg, to lack proper freedom of information laws.

Publicly, Rusbridger has expressed alarm that, by leaving open a back door to monitor Internet communications, the U.S. and the U.K. may prompt less open governments, such as China and Iran, to move to a walled, state-operated Internet; the result would undermine the ideal of a worldwide, open communications system.

"Beyond the energy resources of the Caspian, the region offers the United States a chance to advance its aims to improve relations with the Muslim world and develop more open governments," Brenda Shaffer, the research director of Harvard University's Caspian studies program, said in a recent interview.

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An open government can create better policies.

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But what is open government really about?