Egypt’s Budget Less Transparent Than Mubarak Era, Survey Shows

Egypt’s budget became less transparent after the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak, as successive governments made fewer documents available to the public, according to a survey.

The North African country scored 13 out of 100 in the 2012 survey, down from 49 in 2010, the Washington-based International Budget Partnership said in a report on its website. That places Egypt in the bottom one-fifth of the 100 nations surveyed, below Nigeria, Lebanon and Jordan.