By Ulla Tørnæs, Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark Sanjay Pradhan Chief Executive Officer, Open Government Partnership Mari Kiviniemi, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD & Delia Ferreira, Chair of Transparency International Over the last year, political rights and civil liberties around the world have experienced a general deterioration. The rise of populism, misinformation, attacks on civil society, and illicit money in politics have fueled this decline to a point that they now threaten the very foundations of democracy in countries around the world. A common thread running through these trends are new and old forms of corruption, which enable the misallocation of public funds and...
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