FACTI recommendation as blueprint / Communist anti-corruption campaigns / CPI reform nudge

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UN FACTI Panel report should serve as blueprint for global anti-corruption action (Press Release).  “The report published…by the UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity (FACTI Panel) lays out a clear vision for a cooperative international framework to combat corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and other financial crimes. It is imperative that this is converted into action by the international community.”

Transparency International: https://www.transparency.org/en/press/un-facti-panel-report-blueprint-for-global-anti-corruption-action    

 

Why Communist Anti-Corruption Campaigns Never Work (Opinion).  “Because they are inherently top-down and focused on curing individuals of the natural impulse towards graft in a system that is irremediably extractive, they’ll either run out of steam once their proponents retire from office or run out of victims unless, as [General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong] put it, the vase is to be broken to catch all the mice.”

David Hutt/The Diplomat: https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/why-communist-anti-corruption-campaigns-never-work/  

 

Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index falls short of nudging govts to undertake reforms (Opinion).  “The CPI will be meaningful when understood in the national context and alongside other indices such as Global Corruption Barometer, Press Freedom Index, and Rule of Law Index etc. To conclude, the CPI generates short-lived hype/hysteria but rarely prompts a Pygmalion effect.”

Mallika Mahajan and Pawan Kumar Sinha/The Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/transparency-internationals-corruption-perception-index-falls-short-of-nudging-governments-to-undertake-reforms-7203344/

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