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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. From London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fastman.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

There are lots of reasons that a country's tally of its COVID deaths might be inaccurate.

Not every country counts in the same way.

But there's doubtless also been some fiddling of the numbers,

and some new research shows how to spot it.

And an eternal question. How to reduce corruption? Well, countries can increase funding for

anti-corruption officers. They can make public spending more transparent, but some places are

trying a much simpler solution.

Over night, Russian forces intensified their offensive in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city.

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