The flipside of corruption / (Indonesia) KPK shows ‘lack of willingness’ to fight corruption in natural resources / Why business bailouts must be conditional on responsible tax commitments

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The flipside of corruption: State comparisons in India using public service delivery measures (opinion). "Understanding where corruption is high and why is a difficult task mainly because of the difficulties in measuring corruption. Given the well-documented problems with perceptions of corruption, recent literature has focused on objective measures of corruption. Focusing on the delivery of public services, a reliable measure could be the irregularities detected by top-down audits or social audits detected in such delivery. Unfortunately, as discovered by other scholars in the GI-ACE research programme (David-Barret and Fazekas, 2020), data on irregularities in delivery ("leakages") or in procurement practices are notoriously hard to obtain, nor is it clear that data are correctly coded. However, digitization at all levels of government in India is proceeding rapidly so that perhaps there will be a rich source on audit findings in a few years." 

 

 

 

(Indonesia) KPK shows 'lack of willingness' to fight corruption in natural resources sector: Activists . "Critics have questioned whether the (Indonesian) Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) will be able to fulfill its promise of addressing corruption in the natural resources sector, which potentially accounts for the largest state losses of any sector in Indonesia. KPK chairman Firli Bahuri recently told the commission's newly inaugurated deputy for law enforcement, Karyoto, to crack down on corruption in mining and other natural resources businesses. Corruption in the natural resources sector has, according to researchers, caused larger state losses than similar illicit practices in other sectors." 

 

 

 

Why business bailouts must be conditional on responsible tax commitments (opinion). "Europe is experiencing its greatest healthcare and economic crisis since World War II. The current crisis has put additional strain on underfunded healthcare and social welfare systems and has exposed the true cost of secrecy and dysfunction in our tax system." 

 

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