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But business activity remains bogged down by myriad restrictions and a frustratingly slow judicial system, which, together with a complex system of price subsidies, encourage widespread corruption at every level of government.
The top priority for the new Saudi leadership under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to consolidate power, which the prince is doing by associating himself with an effort to attack corruption in the Kingdom and by pursuing a nationalist, anti-Iranian foreign policy.
Last year, the country’s GDP growth slowed, manufacturing plummeted, and inflation and corruption grew uncontrollably.
Elected and unelected government officials alike, including cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and civil servants, were implicated in corruption scandals.
The population’s outraged response to these events was visceral, and previously unknown figures such as the anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare rallied thousands of Indians in meetings across the country to protest against government corruption.
Where corruption has been absent, incompetence has replaced it.
For many who supported him, he was the lesser of two evils: his rival was backed by two powerful politicians implicated in corruption scandals.
India’s Corruption CurseNEW DELHI – Is corruption crippling India?
Yet a combination of factors that have mushroomed over time has raised serious concerns about the threat that corruption poses to the very fabric of the Indian state.
Of course, India is not experiencing any Arab-style “youth quakes” in response to the current corruption scandal plaguing the Congress Party-led government.
But, on top of all these woes sits corruption, crippling all the organs of state and reaching into its highest offices.
But it was also the consequence of scandalous misconduct at India’s telecommunications ministry where some $30 billion may have been siphoned off through corrupt practices, gross mismanagement of the Commonwealth games, and many other instances of governmental corruption.
The opposition demand for a JPC to examine corruption required real leadership from the government.
Their corruption is debilitating not only India’s parliament, but its democracy as well.
Perhaps corruption has gained the upper hand because India’s system for redressing grievances has become so sluggish.
In such an atmosphere of contempt for opposition, corruption grows and festers.
And it is corruption, combined with a loss of accountability, that is eroding the checks and balances of India’s democratic order.
The “dynasticism” that has taken such a firm grip on much of Indian politics plays a large role in fostering corruption.
When he was re-elected by an even larger majority, his government was overthrown, his political party was banned by the Supreme Court, and he was forced to flee the country after corruption charges against him led to a criminal conviction.
Inequality, especially when paired with corruption, is devastating for the status quo.
Generally the causes are these: unpaid wages and pensions; sudden and massive job terminations; and management corruption held responsible for the bankruptcy of industrial enterprises--where discharged workers were secure, enjoying privileges and benefits, since the 1950s.
The Fallen PharaohEgypt’s Kifaya Movement has raised the ante in its opposition to President Hosni Mubarak’s regime by issuing a massive report that dares to name names and detail corruption among the country’s leaders.
The report begins by joking that Egypt’s name should be changed to “Fasadistan,” the land of corruption.
Some of the younger officers complained about corruption.
Meanwhile, massive corruption is devastating Egypt’s economy, with growth falling by half in the last two years, accompanied by rising unemployment, higher inflation, and currency depreciation.
Corruption and OccupationTEL AVIV – Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former President Moshe Katsav’s alleged sex crimes, and now Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement that, with charges of corruption swirling about him, he will resign in September: all of this suggests profound wounds in Israel’s moral tissue.
Old Israelis like myself are stupefied by the scope and scale of today’s corruption and the multiplying investigations.
Is corruption something that has always existed here but was somehow hidden until now?
I do not believe that corruption is coming to light just because law enforcement is somehow better, or because citizens, like the presidential staff who accused President Katsav of sexual crimes and harassment, are more courageous.
I remember how in the 1970’s, when suspicion of corruption arose with respect to a Labor Party minister, the minister took his own life.
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