IMF transparency measures / Bangladesh climate change investments / Republic of Korea president approval rating

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A Covid-19 Checkup: How the IMF’s Transparency Measures Have Fared So Far (Blog).  “In short, it seems that the IMF—in part due to the prodding and pressure from civil society—has struck roughly the right balance between speed and transparency. Now that Covid vaccinination has begun, anticorruption officials ought to turn towards making sure the IMF checks the receipts that countries have been told to so diligently keep and works with countries to return to their pre-pandemic budgeting practices.”

Clay Hackney/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2020/12/18/a-covid-19-checkup-how-the-imfs-transparency-measures-have-fared-so-far/  

 

Climate change investments in Bangladesh: leveraging dual-use characteristics as an anti-corruption tool (Working Paper).  “corruption has not affected all climate change projects equally or in the same way, even when implemented by the same agency, funded by the same funder, and therefore with identical formal governance arrangements. In this paper, we show that the effectiveness of monitoring by local communities plays an important role in explaining these differences.”

Mushtaq Khan et al./SOAS-ACE: https://ace.soas.ac.uk/publication/climate-change-investments-in-bangladesh/  

 

Moon's approval rating rebounds from record low: Realmeter.  “An analyst at Realmeter assessed that the latest rebound may have been driven by [the Republic of Korea President Moon Jae-in's] strengthened message in key issues, such as the parliamentary passage of a law facilitating the launch of a high-profile corruption investigation body, the state response against the resurgence of COVID-19 and on the the political feud between Choo and Yoon.”

The Korea Herald: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20201221000606  

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