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Corruption will be curbed, but not eliminated, and China will move up 10 to 20 notches to above 60 in T.I. ranking.

When we talk about corruption, there are typical types of individuals that spring to mind.

So it's easy to think that corruption happens somewhere over there, carried out by a bunch of greedy despots and individuals up to no good in countries that we, personally, may know very little about and feel really unconnected to and unaffected by what might be going on.

And that's how my relationship with corruption really began.

Because I'd been speaking to lots of people there who, well, they talked about a different problem: that of a massive web of corruption on a global scale and millions of oil dollars going missing.

And in the years that I've been, and we've all been campaigning and investigating, I've repeatedly seen that what makes corruption on a global, massive scale possible, well it isn't just greed or the misuse of power or that nebulous phrase "weak governance."

I mean, yes, it's all of those, but corruption, it's made possible by the actions of global facilitators.

So the reality is, is that the engine of corruption, well, it exists far beyond the shores of countries like Equatorial Guinea or Nigeria or Turkmenistan.

In virtually every case of corruption that we've investigated, shell companies have appeared, and sometimes it's been impossible to find out who is really involved in the deal.

A recent study by the World Bank looked at 200 cases of corruption.

Corruption in that sector, no surprise.

There's corruption everywhere, so why focus on that sector?

And finally, well, there are those who believe that corruption is unavoidable.

Because it really isn't about corruption somewhere over there, is it?

In a globalized world, corruption is a truly globalized business, and one that needs global solutions, supported and pushed by us all, as global citizens, right here.

Think of all the years reformers of various stripes have tried to get rid of corruption in Russia, for instance, or how hard it is to re-regulate the banks even after the most profound financial crisis since the Great Depression, or even how difficult it is to get the big multinational companies, including those whose motto might be "don't do evil," to pay taxes at a rate even approaching that paid by the middle class.

And in 2008, in Chengdu, Sichuan area in China, nearly 70,000 people were killed, and also especially many of the schools were destroyed because of the corruption between the authority and the contractor.

But I get asked this question, and this particular question makes me quite sad: It's, "But what about corruption?

How can you invest in Africa when there's corruption?"

And what makes me sad about it is that this graph here is showing you that the biggest correlation with corruption is wealth.

When you're poor, corruption is not your biggest priority.

And the countries on the right hand side, you'll see the per capita GDP, basically every country with a per capita GDP of, say, less than 5,000 dollars, has got a corruption score of roughly, what's that, about three?

How do you get from poverty and corruption to wealth and less corruption?

And the way to do that is to invest, not to say I'm not investing in that continent because there's too much corruption.

Now, I don't want to be an apologist for corruption.

So we went from doing low-level drug crimes that were outside our building to doing cases of statewide importance, on things like reducing violence with the most violent offenders, prosecuting street gangs, gun and drug trafficking, and political corruption.

Or political corruption in Sarawak, Malaysia, which has led to the destruction of much of its forests.

Copyright policy, Internet policy, how are you ever going to address those problems so long as there's this fundamental corruption in the way our government works?"

It was a group called the New Hampshire Rebellion that was beginning to talk about, how would we make this issue of this corruption central in 2016?

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