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The history of the Soviet Union has alerted us that the last stage of Communism may well be crony capitalism.
Many of Ukraine’s richest citizens, who gained their wealth through the crony capitalism that is the only way Yanukovych knows how to govern, remain unreconciled to Ukraine’s democracy.
The health ministry representative responsible for the malaria component was a crony of the health minister and complained about his proposal's rejection.
The BJP’s record in government – flagrant financial malfeasance, a procession of Chief Ministers, charges of nepotism and crony capitalism, real-estate and mining scandals, policy paralysis, and a free rein to Hindu-chauvinist groups (who attacked pubs, assaulted girls for “indecency,” and disrupted Valentine’s Day) – elicited a decisive rebuke from the electorate.
The battle against crony capitalism starts in the classroom, and we professors are inevitably implicated.
For example, in cases of extreme corruption and crony capitalism, the state’s resources are hijacked by the few.
But he was not popular because the public viewed him as a puppet of China and a crony of big developers, particularly Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest person.
A demographically declining empire of crony capitalists, from which the most talented and educated flee – some 300,000 left Russia last year alone – is hardly likely to be a serious strategic challenger to either the United States or China.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that in America people have to prove themselves continually, whereas in traditional Korean society people have only to prove themselves once, then they can be set for life due in large measure to the network of crony contacts that initial success will have provided.
From the right, the stress is on the hazards of crony capitalism, owing to the massive implicit government subsidies that these banks receive.
Weighty minds will probably see the IPL’s tawdry underside as emblematic of post-liberalization India’s crony capitalism and business short-termism.
In the run up to the crisis, both were governed by right-wing governments marked by crony capitalism or worse, demonstrating once again that free-market economics didn’t work in Europe any better than it did in the US.
Indeed, in this, the 18th year of Putin’s rule, a new form of crony capitalism has been taking hold.
Russia’s crony capitalism has bred a small class of incredibly wealthy individuals, whose children are given top state positions by the time they turn 30.
Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin’s son Ivan became deputy director of a Rosneft department at 25.Russia’s new model of crony capitalism seems to be a deliberate effort to emulate the success of Russia’s ancient feudal system – a system that, after all, lasted for centuries.
Meanwhile, crony capitalism fuels income inequality, impedes rural development, and erodes the education system.
The fourth and final priority is a more concerted effort to ensure fair competition and avoid crony capitalism.
But, just as those regions have been improving their public and corporate governance – Hong Kong just witnessed a breakthrough court decision against a telecom tycoon who is the son of the province’s richest and most powerful man – crony capitalism is taking root in the United States, a country that the world long considered the gold standard of a level playing field in business.
The recently completed “stress tests” of US banks are but the latest indication that crony capitalists have now captured Washington, DC.
Like swine flu, crony capitalism has migrated from corrupt Third World countries to America, once the citadel of sound public and private governance.
A McCain presidency would have offered no hope for a radical break with the military swagger and crony capitalism of the Bush years, on which the bilateral relationship with India was built.
The proposed "united economic space" will also have its own norms - the ways of the oligarch, the corrupt bureaucrat, the crony capitalist, and the politically motivated prosecutor.
Moreover, even before the oil-price collapse, crony capitalism had brought growth to a halt – and any serious effort to change the system would destabilize his power base.
The irony is that after a long and bruising experience with crony capitalism, the best thing for India now might be more capitalism, starting in the financial sector.
In a crony capitalist system, threatening the governing elite’s wealth rapidly erodes loyalty to the regime.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, we discovered that President Bush had appointed a crony rather than a professional as head of America’s emergency relief agency.
Such an approach would ensure that those who benefit from Putin’s crony capitalism could not launder their money and shelter their families in the West.
Saleh is only your crony.”
And, thanks to the large pool of savings generated by Chinese households and state-owned companies, the Chinese economy can for the time being bear the waste and misallocation implied by such crony capitalism.
Consider the case of the lesser-known Putin crony Nikolai Shamalov and his two sons.
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