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Judicial reforms are, in turn, helping to root out
corruption.
Xi’s RecipeWASHINGTON, DC – China’s government is cracking down hard on Western journalists, threatening not to renew visas for reporters from the New York Times and Bloomberg in retaliation for their reporting on the
corruption
of senior Chinese officials.
Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently penned an open letter to the Chinese government telling them that, because the top “cause of death of Chinese regimes in history is greed and corruption,” a free press is more likely to help than hurt.
The Communist Party must keep the Chinese economy growing (even if more slowly), while fighting rampant
corruption
and responding to citizens’ demands.
Modi’s stated goal was to make good on his campaign pledge to fight “black money”: the illicit proceeds – often held as cash – of tax evasion, crime, and
corruption.
Instead,
corruption
and construction accidents have plagued preparations, with hotels still unfinished just days before the opening ceremony.
Only a few years ago, a young journalist, Georgi Gongadze, seeking to inform the public about our old regime’s corruption, was brutalized and beheaded by that regime’s thugs.
Communists saw social democrats as a greater danger than Nazis; and leftwing intellectuals were distracted by the hypocrisy and
corruption
of mainstream parties they really should have supported.
More than 40% of the fruits and vegetables that India produces rot, owing to mismanagement and corruption, inadequate infrastructure, lack of refrigerated storage, shoddy logistics, and underdeveloped marketing channels.
In the 1990s, Italy’s largely bipartisan system disintegrated when Christian Democracy was engulfed by
corruption
scandals and the Communist Party was pulled apart by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Much more is needed to change the vicious cycle of violence and
corruption
that undermines the rule of law in Mexico.
He has appointed inept officials to reward political loyalty, has made no commitment to transparency, and has failed to combat the
corruption
that is devastating the country.
The Knights Templar had taken over the state by making the most of its leaders’ complicity, corruption, and ineptitude.
The Mexican political class simply refuses to combat
corruption
and impunity.
But
corruption
remains a profound and persistent threat to this effort, and if the government cannot reduce it significantly – especially among its anti-drug forces – a return to tolerance is inevitable.
Libya’s Shadow on Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – As Libya’s citizens rebuild their lives and economy, undoing the
corruption
in the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund in which Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime allegedly stashed and misused Libya’s oil wealth, is becoming a priority.
Of course, no one should infer from the Libyan case that other SWFs across the board are riddled with
corruption
and conflicts of interest.
But in the Zuma era, concentrated wealth led to nepotistic hiring practices, political appointments based on clientelism (owing to higher salaries for government employees), and other forms of
corruption.
As Patrick Gaspard, the former United States ambassador to South Africa, recently noted, the country has a strong system of checks and balances that, if steered properly, can trump
corruption
and deliver needed reforms.
For one thing, the rule of law must be strengthened considerably, and not just to rein in official
corruption.
The World Bank, using well over 100 indicators, introduced a composite index of good governance, based on perceptions of voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, the rule of law, and levels of
corruption.
To be sure, governance that is effective, legitimate, and responsive provides untold benefits, especially when compared to the alternative: inefficient governance, cronyism, and
corruption.
Official corruption, for example, has become so entrenched that President Xi Jinping has made an anti-graft campaign a central objective.
This invites
corruption
and inefficiency.
Tung’s successor, Donald Tsang, completed his two terms, but just barely, and he was jailed for
corruption
(along with his number two) after leaving office.
A separate US legal case has underscored one of the main dangers of patent-driven monopoly power:
corruption.
Muckraking broadsheets in the first half of the last century played cat-and-mouse games with Chinese government censors, ultimately helping to expose the
corruption
and moral bankruptcy of the Nationalist (KMT) government and contributing to the Communist victory in 1949.
The editor and deputy editors of Beijing News, a relatively new tabloid with a national reputation for exposing
corruption
and official abuse, were fired.
Russians are reacting not merely to the strains of economic crisis and social change, but to staggering government
corruption.
Because the real progress of economic reform was compromised by mass corruption, it is no surprise that public support for it is tenuous.
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