corruptione-governmentBrazilTransparency has often been hailed as one of the main mechanisms through which corruption can be combated due to the fact that it supposedly increases levels of accountability. In this sense, e-Government would be the platform through which this can be achieved. However...
Look elsewhere to see the importance of the mundane business of voting. Last week in Brazil, the sitting president was ousted by a vote of 50.9% for his opponent. It is not a cliché to say of that election that every vote counted. In Britain in 2016, by 52% of the vote in a refe...
Corruption Illicit Networks and the Rise of “Mafia States” Council On Foreign Relations, May 24, 2012 By Stewart M. Patrick The conventional narrative of transnational crime describes a weak nation-state exploited by sophisticated organized criminal groups. In this zero-sum worldview, the state ...
The procurement of 4.5 billion products with the intention of injecting them into people, without anyone knowing what is inside, is surely the biggest corruption affair in the history of mankind.”(39) Mislav Kolakusic MEP -The purchase of 4.5 billion doses of the covid-19 vaccine …– You...
The Doing Business 2018 Report ranks Mauritius, South Africa, Rwanda, Botswana, Ghana, Tunisia and Namibia above China (the best performing BRIC country), while Morocco, Zambia, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria rank above India and Brazil Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions...
(France, Colombia, and elsewhere). Sometimes politics provides the spark – an election stolen (Russia, Bolivia), passage of an unpopular law (Hong Kong, India), or the revelation of corruption (Iraq). Sometimes government inaction creates the grievance, such as pervasive gun violence in the ...
) suffer fromcognitive dissonancewhen operating in another country where they cannot stop things like corruption. It will go against all of their own company ethics and in their own country but they understand that unless the country they are operating in, and the larger demographics, suffer from...
Proposition 3: Corruption LGBT+ discrimination often goes hand-in-hand with corrupt practices and a lack of openness. Proposition 4: Direct Investment LGBT+ inclusion is associated with higher levels of direct investment. Proposition 5: Global Markets LGBT+ discrimination may inhibit...
"Corruption significantly impedes businesses operating or planning to invest in Russia. High-level and petty corruption is common, especially in the judicial system and public procurement," notes a 2020 profile of business in Russia prepared by the Risk and Compliance Portal, a business resource main...
There is a potential downside to this rationale, however. Devaluation also increases the debt burden of foreign-denominated loans when priced in the home currency. This is a big problem for a developing country like India or Argentina, which holds lots of dollar- and euro-denominated debt. Thes...