Ghada Waly, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ( UNODC ), was speaking at the opening of the first global conference on the topic. Corruption costs the world roughly $2.6 trillion annually, according to the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) - money that could go towards fighting hunger, providing healthcare, and ensuring all children have access to quality education. "Developing a common approach to measuring corruption can introduce much-needed clarity, helping us to determine causes, consequences, and trends, to identify gaps and weaknesses, to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies, and most importantly to assess progress," Ms.

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