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Roy Cullen

The Poverty of Corrupt Nations

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The fight to eliminate world poverty is being severely hampered by corrupt leaders in developing countries. According to the African Union, some $150 billion is lost every year to corruption in Africa. In China, it is estimated corruption diminishes the annual value of gross domestic product by 15%. The pattern repeats itself elsewhere.

This bleak situation compounds the poverty problem even more because donor countries are justifiably reluctant to support jurisdictions whose leaders are known to be corrupt, ignoring their citizens' needs while stealing and laundering public funds for private use. What development does occur in chronically corrupt nations is often poorly planned and environmentally unsustainable, since the private gain of corrupt politicians and officials takes precedence over the implementation of sound development strategies. Likewise, bureaucratic corruption also results in the compromising of worker and consumer safety after all, a bribe costs less than obeying the law. And it is the poor who really pay the true cost of corruption.

The Poverty of Corrupt Nations is a straightforward, easy-to-read exposition of the nature and scope of global corruption and money laundering, explaining the impact of recent troubling corruption trends on the public-at-large and public policy makers. Specifically, Cullen examines the links between world poverty, corruption, terrorism, global migration patterns, and money laundering. Constructively, Cullen then outlines a practical 20-point program to increase transparency and accountability in governments and parliaments around the world and break this cycle of corruption and poverty.
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2008
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2008
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  • b6647430409цитирапреди 2 години
    By contrast, Africa is also a continent rich in natural resources, owning 50 per cent of the world’s gold, 98 per cent of its chromium, 90 per cent of its cobalt, 64 per cent of its manganese and 33 per cent of its uranium.
    Something is wrong with this picture! We know that there is a high degree of correlation between poverty and corruption. A country that is poor is likely to be corrupt also; and likewise, a country that is corrupt is also likely to be poor. What we don’t know is which is
  • b6647430409цитирапреди 2 години
    the cause and which is the effect. Did the country become poor because it was corrupt or did corruption take hold because of abject poverty? We may never know the answers to these questions, but it seems obvious that if we could eliminate, or at least reduce, corruption, we could make a positive impact on poverty
  • b6647430409цитирапреди 2 години
    Nigeria is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 199th out of 208 countries according to the 2003 World Bank Atlas report. In addition, according to Transparency International, an independent think-tank, Nigeria was ranked as one of the most corrupt nations in the world in 2005—154th out of 159 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index (where country 159 is the most corrupt). Canada ranked fourteenth on this same list (i.e., Canada was the fourteenth least-corrupt country).
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