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At a private dinner about anti-malaria initiatives and other global public health programs, Columbia University economist and U.N. special adviser Jeffrey Sachs told participants that fighting corruption is essential. "You can't have transparency without accountability," Sachs told the dinner co-hosted by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the Center for Global Health & Diplomacy. "It takes an effort, but it is core to the discipline of public health." Across the street, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was celebrating Germany's decision to reinstate its donation of
euro200 million ($270 million) a year through 2016, a change from the country's stance in 2011 when it held back some of its contributions to the $24 billion fund due to concerns about losses to corruption. David Seaton, CEO of the Fluor Corp., says he sometimes wonders whether the anti-corruption task force he co-chairs for the Group of 20, the world's largest economies, has done anything more than pay lip service to a difficult, frustrating and often confounding problem. "We are confronted by a scourge that presents a substantial roadblock to global growth and robs economies of resources that should be utilized to improve the quality of life," he wrote in a Davos forum blog posted Saturday. "This is one of those challenges where failure is not an option."
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