Global Integrity report 2008.
Global Integrity Commons Blog. The Global Integrity Report: 2008 covered more countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) than ever before; among the Report's key findings is that the most significant anti-corruption performance lag in much of MENA is not elections, but poor access to government information. While there are a small number of success stories in the Middle East and North Africa (such as Jordan), Arab countries assessed in the Global Integrity Report: 2008 are overwhelmingly behind the rest of the world in providing basic transparency mechanisms for citizens to access government information. When compared to all other regions in the world, the access to information deficit in the Middle East and North Africa is roughly double those countries’ deficit on any other issue assessed by Global Integrity.
http://commons.globalintegrity.org/2009/02/for-acc
ess-to-government-information.html