IMF Puts Renewed Focus on Corruption

Expand © 2019 Human Rights Watch The International Monetary Fund (IMF) monitors the economic health of 189 member countries, and regularly publishes an analysis of each country’s economy, called an Article IV report, highlighting key economic risks. The IMF has long recognized systemic corruption as a serious economic threat, and in 1997 it committed to promoting good governance and tackling corruption as an essential part of its mission. New data analysis of Article IV reports over the past 15 years sheds light on how well the IMF has lived up to this promise. Two scholars from Central European…

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