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For the renegotiation of NAFTA to be worthwhile, it must address wages, corruption, and human rights – all particularly serious challenges for Mexico today.
As one who worked in the gas industry before entering politics, I know that the gas trade in the countries of the former Soviet Union is riddled with
corruption.
The higher the degree of a democracy's illiberality, the higher the degree of corruption, moral hazard, opportunism and rent seeking behaviour; the more corrupted the economy, the more stunted democracy is likely to be.
Crony capitalism is a system that gives free rein to phenomena such as hidden connections between political and economic power, corruption, clientelism, and embezzlement.
Governments generally lack the needed technical capacity to design such projects, opening up possibilities of favoritism and
corruption
when major contracts are awarded.
That will give firms all the more reason to lobby and otherwise pressure licensing authorities, further complicating the process, and raising the possibility of
corruption.
As the World Bank’s Chief Economist under Wolfensohn, I had argued that failing to deal with
corruption
risked undermining growth and poverty alleviation.
But the fight against
corruption
was always to be only one part of a more comprehensive development agenda that was required.
Indeed, aid effectiveness could be undermined just as much by incompetence as by
corruption.
Sadly, the anti
corruption
agenda of the Bank became politicized.
There was a push to give money to Iraq – a country rife with
corruption
– while other countries were accused of
corruption
without adequate hard evidence or specific details.
The World Bank, in its efforts to support democracy and good governance, must insist on the highest standards of due process: charges of
corruption
should be treated seriously, and the evidence turned over to national authorities for use in open, transparent, and independent proceedings.
Moreover, Doing Business helps to break down barriers – particularly in developing countries – that can discourage the establishment of small and medium-size enterprises, provide opportunities for corruption, and drive small business owners to the informal sector.
Among the highest-profile defamation-related cases in the Middle East today is that involving Najat Abu Bakr, a member of Palestine’s parliament who has been summoned for interrogation by the attorney-general after leveling
corruption
accusations against Hussein al-Araj, a cabinet minister with close ties with President Mahmoud Abbas.
In 2000, for example, the journalist Georgiy Gongadze was kidnapped and beheaded after publishing online reports about high-level government
corruption.
Camara’s test – indeed, the test for most African rulers – consists in protecting civilians and their property, in establishing law and order without oppressive measures, and in fighting
corruption.
Highly responsive to international pressure, he was recently praised by Human Rights Watch for his “very important effort” in recognizing the destructive role of
corruption
and drug trafficking, and for launching an official crackdown on both.
It is to this end that Medvedev performs his civilizing mission – participating in world forums, posting Twitter updates, berating rampant corruption, and supporting “modernization” and the “rule of law.”
In June, speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Medvedev mesmerized his audience by simultaneously sounding avant-garde and hackneyed: he attacked corruption, vowed that Russia is not “building state capitalism,” and promised legal and federal reforms.
Not surprisingly, all
corruption
indicators have been rising since Putin took over from Yeltsin, whereas they are falling in most post-communist countries.
Although
corruption
is pervasive, no top official has been prosecuted.
Corruption
rules many state governments and national ministries.
In adopting such a system, Indians would have nothing to lose but the
corruption
and chaos of today's discredited parliament.
Moreover, enforcement of the rights that do exist is trapped somewhere between ineptitude and
corruption.
The staunchly pro-American Saakashvili launched successful economic reforms and an all-out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses.
To be sure, Saakashvili became famous as Georgia’s justice minister for submitting
corruption
charges against the Shevardnadze family, and early in his presidency was able to reclaim for the state $15 million dollars of the Shevardnadze fortune.
Similarly, whereas tens of thousands of functionaries were indicted for
corruption
or lost their jobs under his leadership in the 1970s, the post-Soviet Shevardnadze of the 1990s reportedly joked that he should have arrested himself, but that he deserved his wealth for his priceless political contribution.
But doing so will require overcoming three related obstacles: Iraqi leaders’ military inexperience;
corruption
and cronyism; and ambiguity regarding the extent of external support.
However, staggering levels of
corruption
under Diem and his US-backed successors, and the replacement of the military’s most competent commanders with Diem’s cronies, ultimately led to the rout of the South Vietnamese Army.
With his lack of a military background, he seems not to have understood that external forces need to work closely with the local army, and that a sophisticated support network must be in place to avoid logistical disruptions resulting from enemy action or
corruption.
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