“…These were predominantly quantitative studies covering a comparatively large sample of countries. This included global studies (Berggren and Bjørnskov, 2020;Chan, 2018), regional studies on SSA (Adams and Klobodu, 2016;Adeleye, Osabuohien, and Bowale, 2017;Kunawotor, Bokpin, and Barnor, 2020), Asia (Warf, 2019) and Latin America (Warf and Stewart, 2016), as well as national and subnational studies on Mexico (Hill et al, 2016), India (Daoud, 2015), Colombia (Bustos and Estupiñán, 2019;Nieto-Aleman et al, 2019), Egypt (Bremer, 2018), and Nigeria (Suleiman and Aminul Karim, 2015). A further seven studies identified enabling interlinkages between increased transparency and access to basic services (Bhat, Holtz, and Avila, 2018;Pinzón-Flórez, Chapman, Cubillos, and Reveiz, 2016;Sukati et al, 2018;Warf and Stewart, 2016;Wickremasinghe et al, 2018) and equal opportunity (Hill et al, 2016;Ye and Yang, 2020).…”