The IMF and World Bank are the world’s two leading lending institutions, but much of their monetary assistance disappears once it enters the banking systems of developing countries. Cite concrete evidence that supports the assertion that much assistance to developing countries is simply stolen by officials. Determine other main factors that account for the misuse of these funds. corrupt government officials. Money, of course, is a fungible commodity, and once aid money from the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank enters a government’s budgetary stream, it become difficult to trace. Even to the extent loans and grants are tied to specific projects, for example, construction of infrastructure, it can be difficult to track. The larger problem of government corruption, however, is well-known. The principal nongovernmental source on corruption around the world is Transparency International, a link to whose website is provided below. Transparency International conducts annual assessments of corruption in every country in the world and ranks each country according to its level of corruption. For example, Denmark and New Zealand are rated as the least corrupt countries in the world, with Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia ranked as the most corrupt. Unsurprisingly, the correlation between a country’s level of development and its position on the corruption ladder clearly indicates that a relationship between level of development and corruption exists. As the least developed countries are also the more corrupt countries, in most instances, and as the least developed countries are the main recipients of World Bank assistance, it can be deduced that international aid disappears into the coffers of corrupt leaders and officials in those countries. Similarly, IMF loans, which are usually provided to help stabilize a country’s currency, are vulnerable to