Corruption is a key driver of extreme poverty and inequality throughout the world. While an exact figure remains elusive, the UN estimates that corruption costs $2.6 trillion annually, or 5% of the world's GDP. Corruption is also a destabilizing force that is frequently at the heart of global events.

In the Financial Times, “Impact investors look to soften Trump aid blow,” Simon Mundy writes that while impact investment “cannot plug all the holes left by the slashing of international aid, it may at least be able to offset some of the effect”.

I continue here my discussion with Transparency International-US Executive Director Gary Kalman. In the first of this two-part series, I cov

On January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order on “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” ....