Corruption
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For example, although in Peru
corruption
was pervasive elsewhere, government reforms that lowered tax rates managed to increase tax revenue from 8.4% of GDP in 1991 to 12.3% in 1998, and increase the number of taxpayers from 895,000 in 1993 to 1,766,000 in 1999.
Government can also reduce
corruption
by limiting the reach of its activities.
The performance of the bureaucracy would also be lifted by the provision of improved audit agencies and ombudsmen, and by grassroots monitoring corruption, with technical assistance and information provision allocated centrally by government or nongovernmental organizations.
In Ukraine, there is one more factor working in the EU’s favor: the country’s new leadership is determined to correct previous governments’ corruption, mismanagement, and abuses.
For most people, however, life under totalitarian dictatorship was not ennobling; it was, rather, a daily immersion in lies, spiritual depravity, and material
corruption.
Moreover,
corruption
payments should be added to official taxation.
South Africa’s networks of patronage and
corruption
have become so endemic that the term “state capture” – coined by the World Bank to describe central Asian post-Soviet states where oligarchs coopted public institutions for personal profit – has entered widespread use.
As a result, they have expanded into global markets, enabled by an extralegal system of relationships based on clientelism and
corruption.
When
corruption
and alliances with public officials do not work, they confront state institutions directly.
Latin America’s governments and citizens can recognize and address distortions in their own thinking, or they can remain on a path of
corruption
and violence that erodes states and citizenship alike.
Her second term in office (1993-96) was longer and better, but her government again fell early, owing to charges of mismanagement and
corruption.
In the emerging world, Brazil's government has faced multiple
corruption
scandals.
One of them, Paul Chan Mo-po, was tasked with managing Hong Kong’s land-supply policy, despite a history of
corruption
in his personal property transactions.
The AKP has largely squandered the goodwill that first brought it to power on a wave of voter revulsion at the old political elite’s rampant
corruption.
But the opaque nature of the deal may further weaken America’s already wobbly standing in Kyrgyzstan, where the contract has been cast as a source of
corruption
that padded the bank accounts of two successive dictators.
The party has simply stepped in where the Greek state – long plagued by inefficiency and
corruption
– has retreated, providing basic welfare and other services to desperate citizens, while engaging in unprecedented violence against people who are or look like immigrants.
The sense of revulsion is acute: Many of the Five Star Movement’s supportershope to transfer control of Italy’s government to citizen-representatives, whose every move would be digitally monitored to preclude
corruption.
Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.
If so many senior Chinese officials openly flaunt fraudulent or dubious academic degrees without consequences, one can imagine how widespread other forms of
corruption
must be.
The official Chinese press is full of
corruption
scandals of this type.
High energy prices are a boon to Russia’s economy, but, as is often the case in the Middle East and other oil- and gas-rich regions, they can be a burden as well, feeding
corruption
and discouraging real economic activity.
Russian membership in the World Trade Organization has the potential to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and give Russia a stake in better relations with the outside world.
Inequality has increased, poverty has been reduced only slightly at best, employment remains stubbornly low, corruption, violence, crime, and political gridlock continue unabated, and foreign investment and free-trade agreements with the US have yet to deliver the goods.
Of course, during this period Venezuela produced as much
corruption
and political irresponsibility as it did barrels of oil.
It is obvious that Yankee imperialism cannot be blamed for Venezuela’s emaciated tax system, dismally bad schools, rampant corruption, high crime rate, and feeble political institutions.
Serving Two MastersTalk about
corruption
in developing countries -- and in some developed ones -- is running rampant.
In the past,
corruption
was usually said to be located within the ranks of public servants, and this was used as a partial justification for privatization, especially in developing countries.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has the right idea, with negotiating objectives that cover labor issues and wages, transparency, corruption, and some aspects of human rights.
On corruption, too, it is likely to be difficult for Mexico to move forward without external discipline.
Already, the USTR has identified
corruption
as an area of interest.
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