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May 12, 2016 · In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.
May 12, 2016 · Policy paper. Against Corruption: a collection of essays. Published 12 May 2016. 1. Foreword by David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Corruption is the cancer at the heart of...
- Corruption is the cancer at the heart of so many of our problems in the world today. It destroys jobs and holds back growth, costing the world econ...
- Corruption has in many ways become the defining issue of the 21st century, just as the 20th century was characterised by large ideological struggle...
- Corruption does not happen everywhere, it is concentrated in pockets: in particular industries, in particular societies and in particular times. Am...
- Sebolu is the Sotho word for a ‘spoilt thing’. It is a derogatory word used in Lesotho’s national language and vernacular to mean, among other thin...
- The early spring of 2015 saw thousands of angry people on the streets of Chisinau, capital of the tiny Republic of Moldova. While calling loudly fo...
- It’s February 2015 and I am in Kano, northern Nigeria. Not three months back, in the midst of Friday prayers, Boko Haram struck the Grand Mosque in...
- Being a sports writer was all I wanted.Thirty-eight years, the only job I’ve ever had. Good times mostly. Not what I thought they would be. When I...
- In the run-up to the general elections in March 2015, I campaigned on the platform of addressing the challenges of security, the economy, power, in...
- 9.1 IntroductionThe moral outrage that many feel about corruption and the devastation it wreaks blinds us to its pervasive nature. But it is impera...
- It says a lot about the New Zealand psyche that one of the most notorious acts in our sporting history involved an underarm cricket delivery.New Ze...
May 12, 2016 · In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.
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In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.
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May 12, 2016 · Against Corruption: A book of essays. Kindle Edition. Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.
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- Christine Lagarde, Great Britain: Cabinet Office
The scholarly literature on corruption has developed in separate disciplines, each of which has produced important insights, but each of which also has some crucial limitations. We bring these existing approaches together, and then we confront them against an ethnographic literature on corruption that over the last two decades has
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Jul 16, 2014 · The World Economic Forum estimates that corruption increases the cost of doing business by up to 10% on average. The significant impact of corruption on income inequality and the negative effect of corruption on income growth for the poorest 20% of a country have been proven empirically.
