கணிதம்Measuring an absence

You cannot count money you cannot see. You can, however, count how many states publish the record and how many do not — and that number is itself a finding. Two descriptive instruments, both recomputable by any reader from the same rows.

Aarambam eraPublic record onlyConvictions only · no naming otherwise

Accounting Gap Ratio

100%

AGR = 1 − (D / S)

S = 9  jurisdictions publishing a freeze record
D = 0  jurisdictions publishing a disposition record

AGR = 0 means every state that publishes a freeze also publishes where the money went. AGR = 1 means none of them do.

Disposition Transparency Index

43%

DTI = mean over jurisdictions of
      (t1 + t2 + t3) / 3

t1 = freeze record published
t2 = disposition record published
t3 = usable restitution route exists

each scored 1 · 0.5 · 0

A high DTI would mean a citizen can follow the money from freeze to destination. The observed value describes how far short of that the public record sits.

Per jurisdiction

Switzerland67%

United States67%

United Kingdom50%

Canada33%

France33%

Netherlands33%

Germany33%

Norway33%

Australia33%

What these measures are not

— Both measures read the PUBLIC RECORD only. A jurisdiction scoring low may hold complete internal records; the measure says the public cannot see them.
— Neither measure estimates any sum of money. TLTE publishes no figure it did not retrieve from an external source.
— Neither measure is applied to a person, a family, a business, or a place of worship.
— Inputs are static and versioned in the repository, so any reader can recompute the number from the same rows.

Now (Aarambam)

— Static inputs, versioned in the repository. Any reader can recompute both numbers.
— Descriptive only. Neither measure is applied to a person or a place.

Becoming (Nilaiththanmai)

— Recomputation as each statutory transparency response lands, with the prior value retained.
— Peer review of the specification before either figure is used in an advocacy setting.

Kaṇakku jurisdiction ledgerUNCAC Ch. VFATF Rec. 6World Bank / UNODC StAR