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This is the underlying dynamic driving corruption in China today.
Any new leader must spur the economy, enforce the rule of law, fight corruption, unify the PA’s security agencies, and preserve public safety – and he must do so quickly or lose authority.
Political corruption runs rampant.
The tensions spawned by Islamic law might be justified if it targeted Nigeria's biggest problem: government corruption.
Muslim politicians know that corruption is killing our country and yet Sharia law is not applied to the misdeeds of public officials.
Corruption is decreasing and judicial reform has started.
These include the protection of property rights, effective contract enforcement, eradication of corruption, enhanced transparency and financial information, sound corporate governance, monetary and fiscal stability, debt sustainability, market-determined exchange rates, high-quality financial regulation, and prudential supervision.
Capital controls by themselves are no panacea, and they often create worse problems, such as corruption or a delay in needed reforms, than they solve.
They also include areas not traditionally considered equality-enhancing – such as facilitating asset-building through small-business and home ownership and combating corruption – but that are just as important as education or redistribution for improving living standards.
Thailand’s new military leaders view themselves as a kind of cleanup crew, tasked with eradicating corruption, keeping politicians in line, and restoring the old order, underpinned by a symbiotic relationship between the military and the monarchy, with the bureaucracy handling day-to-day governance.
Fighting Corruption in the Post Communist WorldCAMBRIDGE: In the last few years, corruption in the former socialist countries has been growing rapidly.
The growth of corruption has alarmed policy makers and business people from the Baltics to Bishkek.
Some critics even charge that increased corruption exposes the failure of economic reforms, particularly privatization.
If only reforms were slower, corruption would not have grown as much.
The critics are right that with slower reforms there would be less corruption.
Take the case of Russia, corruption is growing precisely because private business is growing.
If none of this were happening, there would be much less corruption, but we would not call reforms a success.
Actually, the rise of corruption shows that reforms have been too slow, since governments continue to have massive power over business.
There would be much less corruption if say, local government officials did not have the right to approve the opening of shops, if customs officials could not keep imports at the border for months, and if joints ventures did not require numerous approvals.
As long as too many signatures are required, corruption will be rampant.
And since payments for signatures are expensive, corruption is a high cost of doing business.
One approach is to fight corruption with police and courts.
These reform strategies will undermine the bureaucratic power and reduce corruption.
The lesson here is to fight corruption, market reforms must move faster than the bureaucrats.
It will be the markets, then, and not the politicians, that will ultimately defeat corruption in Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe.
And, indeed, corruption still poses a major challenge for Italy;Rome’s last two mayors, for example, were forced out of office for malfeasance.
This trend began in the late 1980s, with PhDs and researchers who could not find a place at local universities, which are hierarchically controlled, prone to corruption, and starved of funding.
Italy’s government must also fulfill its promise of further improving labor-market flexibility and fighting corruption, including in the form of nepotism.
India’s investigative agencies, judiciary, and press began examining allegations of large-scale corruption.
Nevertheless, Transparency International, the world’s premier corruption rating agency, ranked Hong Kong as the 14th cleanest society in 2007.
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