Corruption
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When we started out, I thought I was going to find so much corruption, I was literally going to either die or get killed in the process.
But when we dug deeper, we didn't find
corruption
in the classic sense: slimy gangsters lurking in the darkness, waiting to grease the palms of their friends.
Unfortunately, that is the beginning of
corruption.
The first concern is about corruption, and the concern that people in these settings are corrupt and they are untrustworthy.
So you seem to be a fan of global governance, but when you look at the map of the world from Transparency International, which rates the level of
corruption
of political institutions, it's a vast sea of red with little bits of yellow here and there for those with good institutions.
We journalists are obligated to take sides in certain circumstances; in cases of racism, discrimination, corruption, lying to the public, dictatorships and human rights, we need to set aside neutrality and indifference.
I wanted to end corruption; I wanted to cut ties between politicians and drug traffickers.
I'm fighting against the
corruption
on SCOTUS, upping my top knot since when I first wrote this.
You've stayed away from the problems of
corruption.
But if you don't think through the problems of corruption, who will?
A typical disaster story: disease, corruption, poverty.
They talk about
corruption.
So there were other rumors about some
corruption
in the local water district.
It's hard to ignore that there's
corruption
on this continent with some of our leaders.
We have focused in my country, we are working very hard towards doing something about corruption, but, you know, they also have great people in Africa.
The plan was to give you a portrait of Nollywood, of this incredible film industry, following Bond in his quest to make an action movie that deals with the issue of corruption, called "Checkpoint."
Police
corruption.
But then when I discovered the situation in my country, at that time there was so much
corruption.
What I didn't see come my way was the women and children whom we served time and shared space with, women who had been imprisoned for crimes of the system, the
corruption
that requires a fall guy, a scapegoat, so that the person who is responsible could go free, a broken system that routinely vilifies the vulnerable, the poorest amongst us, people who cannot afford to pay bail or bribes.
[This talk contains mature content] Rana Ayyub is a journalist in India whose work has exposed government
corruption
and human rights violations.
That's just one of the many ways that
corruption
impacts millions of people in my country.
You know, growing up in Nigeria,
corruption
permeated virtually every element of the society.
I felt that development could never actually happen, so long as
corruption
persisted.
But over the past several years, in my research on innovation and prosperity, I've learned that
corruption
is actually not the problem hindering our development.
In fact, conventional thinking on
corruption
and its relationship to development is not only wrong, but it's holding many poor countries backwards.
So, the thinking goes like this: in a society that's poor and corrupt, our best shot at reducing
corruption
is to create good laws, enforce them well, and this will make way for development and innovation to flourish.
But many of these programs fail to reduce corruption, because we have the equation backwards.
You see, societies don't develop because they've reduced
corruption.
They're able to reduce
corruption
because they've developed.
But then, the more I learned about the relationship between innovation and corruption, the more I started to see things differently.
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