9 December marks the UN’s “anti-corruption day”. What is there to celebrate and lament in 2017, and have we finally ‘drained the swamp’? A slogan that helped carry Donald Trump to the White House sent a message that opaque dealings, lobbyists and contractors have a parasitic role in the democratic process that would no longer persist. Yet for the sectors where corruption does the worst damage to the economy, like oil, mining and other extractive industries, the Trump administration took mere days to give ‘the swamp’ a blank cheque.
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