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Paraguay recently emerged from a long dictatorship, during which education was intimately linked to the government. CADEP (Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economia Paraguaya) wanted to evaluate what has happened to education spending during the democratic transition. Researchers investigated education spending on 30 primary schools around Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital. But they found themselves constantly hindered by the intransparency of education spending, and ended up reaching the conclusion that public expenditure in education is too opaque to be effectively monitored by civil society.