Treasury’s Role in Confronting Kleptocracy

Josh Rudolph at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund discusses how we should approach corruption and kleptocracy from a policy perspective and why Treasury needs to ‘get with the program.’

Episode resources:

• Mentioned at (00:41): The Fight Against Corruption Needs Economists, by Josh Rudolph, Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2021
• Mentioned at (03:06): Investment Funds: Massive Transparency Loopholes with Josh Kirschenbaum, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, Bribe, Swindle or Steal, 21 April 2021
• Mentioned at (04:46): Treasury’s War on Corruption: A U.S. Treasury Department Strategy to Fight Kleptocracy and Root Dirty Money Out of the U.S. Financial System, by Josh Rudolph, Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, 22 December 2020
• Mentioned at (10:37): Letter from Sen. Whitehouse and Rep. Malinowski to Secretary Janet Yellen, 3 May 2021
• Josh’s latest report: Coordinating the War on Corruption: An Administrative Plan for the White House to Combat Corruption and Kleptocracy, by Josh Rudolph, Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, 17 May 2021