Corruption
The International Herald Tribune has this story about a recently released report on how corrupt various nations are.
"This is an amazing evidence again that corruption is still rampant all over the world," the organization's chairman, Peter Eigen, said in London. "In most countries economic policy is still perverted by corruption," he said, "and therefore poverty cannot be effectively addressed."A quick glance through the article shows that the poorest nations are, by and large, the most poor. I would expect that in fact it is corruption that causes poverty even more than poverty causes corruption.
posted by Dave Justus | 10/20/2004 11:28:00 PM
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I completly agree that it is corruption that causes poverty, not the other way around. For proof of that, look at our country: the average american is much more likely to cheat on their income taxes than the average welfare receipiant is to cheat on their welfare forms. (Florio 19.10.2004). The part of the article that interested me was who was benefiting from this graft:
"In these countries, public contracting in the oil sector is plagued by revenues vanishing into the pockets of Western oil executives, middlemen and local officials."
---KPE
"the average american is much more likely to cheat on their income taxes"
I belive that it is american to pay as little taxes as you possible can with out cheating.
In other words, to want to pay taxes is UN-american.
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