Aggressive Criminal Law Enforcement Is Insufficient to Combat Systemic Corruption. But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Necessary (Blog). “After all, while there are plenty of punishment-focused anticorruption crackdowns that failed to produce systemic change, I can’t think of any successful efforts to get rampant corruption under control that didn’t involve a hefty dose of aggressive enforcement of the laws against corruption, including prosecution and punishment.”
Matthew Stephenson/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2019/11/19/aggressive-criminal-law-enforcement-is-insufficient-to-combat-systemic-corruption-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-not-necessary/
New Podcast Episode, Featuring David Barboza (Blog/Podcast). “Mr. Barboza [a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent] discusses the current anticorruption drive headed by President Xi Jinping, and whether this crackdown represents a serious effort to get at the sorts of problems that Mr. Barboza’s reporting helped to reveal, or whether the current crackdown is more of a politically motivated effort to weaken rival factions without fundamentally changing the system.”
Matthew Stephenson and David Barboza/KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2019/11/12/new-podcast-episode-featuring-david-barboza/
Better Blending: The role of the World Bank in promoting transparency in blended finance. “The limited availability of data about blended projects’ commercial performance is widely seen as one of the key “bottlenecks holding back private investments in emerging markets.”…public disclosure of more information about blending’s developmental outcomes has the potential to enhance downward social accountability to affected communities.”
Matthew Jenkins/Transparency International: https://voices.transparency.org/better-blending-the-role-of-the-world-bank-in-promoting-transparency-in-blended-finance-42dedb2e715a
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