This analysis reveals transparency improves health service delivery when coupled with citizen participation and enforcement.
The impact of transparency on health service delivery is conditional rather than automatic. The transparency paradox is largely resolved when interventions are unbundled. Transparency functions as a diagnostic input whose effectiveness depends on being coupled with functional accountability arrangements: either empowered citizen VOICE or credible state TEETH.
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