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Another major concern is that, if businesses are no longer able to “grease the wheels” – that is, bribe officials to allow them to circumvent excessive regulations – their performance could suffer.
That is not the case today; most Chinese officials who have been charged so far have taken bribes from a single businessman, thereby allowing his business to acquire a monopoly position.
Indeed, the reality is that corruption imposes a large, often random, tax on businesses, not least by discouraging officials from cutting red tape for all firms – a move that really would boost growth.
Unlike in a democracy, where citizens elect their government officials based on whatever criteria they choose, in China’s selectocracy, the Chinese Communist Party chooses officials for promotion based on their ability to advance the party’s main objectives – especially growth.
But, as the US-based political scientist Pierre Landry and his colleagues have observed, economic growth is key, particularly among officials at the county and municipal levels, where much of the government’s growth-enhancing activities – such as infrastructure investment – take place.
Promotions provide officials with a strong positive incentive to boost growth.
His (suspended) death sentence should help to deter other officials from choosing the same path.
If corrupt officials can make such significant contributions to growth, imagine what law-abiding officials could do.
In this sense, China’s “selectocracy,” which promises promotions to the officials who prove most effective in promoting growth, could be the key to explaining the country’s impressive economic track record.Britain's First Invasion of IraqBritain's First Invasion of Iraqby Anthony BruceBritain's first intervention in what is now Iraq occurred at the beginning of the First World War.
The US has always criticized Japanese officials’ visits to the shrine, but through diplomatic channels.
Officials also argue that Nigeria's large population relative to other OPEC members, and the urgent need to earn foreign exchange to invest in infrastructure and social services, necessitates preferential treatment.
This effort was brushed aside by President Olusegun Obasanjo and NNPC officials.
Nigerian officials are anxious to swat away charges that Shell padded its figures for reserves in Nigeria to take advantage of lax oversight and regulatory mechanisms and reap millions of dollars in bonus payments.
Human Rights Watch investigators linked Shell officials to gross human rights violations committed by government troops at the time.
This slick alliance of corrupt state officials and self-serving company executives, anxious to keep the petrodollars flowing, is still in place.
Government officials also need the skill and flexibility to work with local communities, private businesses, international organizations, and potential donors.
At stake is the presidency, but also positions for 27 state governors, 54 senators and nearly 1,600 elected officials.
Even so, Bolsonaro and his three eldest sons – all of them elected officials – regularly describe global warming as a fraud.
Germany’s top officials ostensibly went on vacation in order to create the impression that the tensions could easily be resolved.
Mexico’s action in August 1982 took officials elsewhere completely by surprise.
Other American officials have taken to calling PTA’s “trade agreements for the twenty-first century.”
To be truly productive, such contact should not be limited to resolving the Ukraine crisis – or to senior officials.
The compromise that Iranian officials are suggesting is nowhere near what they would have to accept to avert military action and gain an easing of sanctions.
Its officials had no compunction about meddling in a member state’s internal affairs – say, to demand the removal of elected politicians for refusing to implement cuts in the pensions of their poorest citizens or to sell off public assets at ridiculous prices (something I have personally experienced).
Given the obvious need, and the availability of technologies to meet it cost-effectively, one would think that publishers and officials charged with the protection of intellectual property would quickly embrace an agreement that would give sight-impaired people broader access.
For years, senior Chinese officials and their families have received a cut of countless major investments throughout China.
But, although the government is trying to take some of the air out of the market, the authorities cannot easily take the more aggressive action that is required, because Chinese officials and other elites store so much of their wealth in real estate, which also comprises much of the collateral of state-connected banks, Similarly, although state-owned enterprises are sucking too much oxygen out of China’s economy, reforming them would require taking on China’s most powerful business and government leaders.
On the other hand, many of the accusations against Bo could be leveled at an extremely large number of senior officials across China who, like Bo, have amassed multimillion-dollar family fortunes.
But the RCB’s track record since 1992 has done little to stabilize inflation expectations and to persuade businessmen, investors, government officials and ordinary Russians that it is genuinely focused on reining in price growth.
But don’t expect US officials to proclaim that goal openly, or Chinese officials to express their gratitude.
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