Afghanistan US contractors departure / Mental model for front-line reformers / Bangladesh money laundering issue

Departure of U.S. Contractors Poses Myriad Problems for Afghan Military (Commentary).  “Contractors in Afghanistan have long operated under a system that is susceptible to corruption and mismanagement. Transferring their payments through another entity — in this case the Afghan government — is bound to make the contracts even more open to charges of corruption, lawmakers and independent analysts warn.”

Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt/The New York Times: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/departure-u-contractors-poses-myriad-151003866.html  

 

SFRA: A mental model for front-line reformers (Blog).  “We have tried to codify this into a pragmatic mental model that front-line reformers can use to develop better anti-corruption strategies. Its purpose is deliberately limited: to enable context-specific thinking about which particular corruption issues could be addressed to build up a set of feasible strategy options. This mental model is called SFRA: Sector, Focus, Reformulation, Approach.”

Mark Pyman and Paul Heywood/Tufts University: https://sites.tufts.edu/ihs/sfra-a-mental-model-for-front-line-reformers/  

 

‘Black money whitening bar to curbing corruption’.  “The opportunity to whiten black money is a big barrier to curbing corruption in [Bangladesh], said Mustafizur Rahman, a distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue…Bangladesh needs increased organisational capability, good governance, and political will to implement the budget in quality ways.”

The Daily Star: https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/black-money-whitening-bar-curbing-corruption-2114969