Corruption (By: Muhammad Attique Shah Turabi) * Introduction Definition of corruption: “Misuse of the power for private or personal gain or for other unfair means”. “Dishonest or illegal behavior of the people especially of the people in authority”. By every definition corruption means the violations of the laws of land and social norms and it is Root cause of all ills in Pakistan. Corruption is connected with bribery; it will be useful to define it‚ too. The word bribe literally stands for
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Culture of corruption is deeply entrenched in Indonesian society and remains an ongoing challenge for Indonesia (Temple‚ 2001). Under Suharto’s regime‚ corruption was centralized in which the collection of bribes was dominated by government (Macintyre‚ 2003). In other words‚ individual officials were prohibited to maximize their personal gains (Temple‚ 2001). After the Suharto’s fall‚ Indonesia became more democratic and decentralized which were likely to confront corruption. However‚ corruption has gotten
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Kellogg Brown & Root in Nigeria Corruption Case The firm Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in the year of 1998. Among Dresser’s businesses was M. W. Kellog‚ which was combined with an existing Halliburton business and renamed Kellog Brown and Root. By that time‚ Kellog was expecting to build a series of liquefied natural gas in Nigeria‚ but in order to do that it was required to win an initial contract form the Nigerian Government. At the beginning everything was going according to plans‚
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providing professional international trading services. They currently have sales agencies and trading companies in Hong Kong‚ Malaysia‚ Thailand‚ the Philippines‚ and Egypt. They were established in July of 1959. They started on the basis on 5 projects. Xian Electric was also started by two men as Megadent was. Jake Wang‚ one of the two men to start Megadent‚ had a background of international trade and operations. Xian Electric Group offers international trading services so both Megadent and Xian
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informed discretion in all activities. Combination of power‚ authority‚ and discretion in police work produces great potential for abuse. Police corruption has been a problem in American society since the early days of policing. An ancient natural tendency of human beings is to attempt to placate or win over those in positions of authority over them. This tendency is complicated in today’s materialistic society by greed and by the personal and financial benefit to be derived from evading
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Gabrielle Alicea Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder The life of a child with ADD is not an easy one. In the United States‚ each year‚ 8.4% of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. That is 5.2 million children every year. Attention deficit disorder is not extremely easy to diagnose‚ as its symptoms can sometimes mirror the symptoms of some learning disabilities. Symptoms of ADD include; inattention‚ hyperactivity‚ and impulsiveness. In addition to the typical symptoms one
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"The Material and Trading Worlds‚ circa 1400‚" is to describe what the world was like around 1400 in general terms. The author‚ Robert Marks‚ argues that most changes in history are the result of "huge processes that are hardly detectable‚" coming from the changes in social‚ economic‚ political‚ and cultural structures. He analyzes two major structural aspects of the world in the 1400’s: first‚ material and natural conditions under which most people lived; and second‚ the trading networks‚ connected
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The Bell‚ California corruption trial pertains to a group of city officials who misappropriated more than five million dollars of public funds (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). These officials were receiving compensation for conducting phantom meeting‚ wrote their own employment contracts without the approval of the City Counsel‚ and authorized approximately two million dollars in loans to their selves (CNN Wire Staff‚ 2010). To grasp the corruption of the city officials we need analyze the median annual
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We lack the wherewithal to catch and punish the corrupt Many of us believe that corruption is the biggest problem in India and if we could punish the corrupt by catching them‚ it would solve a lot of our problems. I would like to take a look at some of the root causes of corruption in India. The basic cause is that the government is not designed for accountability and delivering services to its citizens. This is a larger problem‚ which can be resolved if adequa-te effort is made to streamline
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there is bad there is good and the police force is no exception. No matter where Serpico goes Police Corruption seems to be all around and his morals are challenged time and time again. He however wants to change this and break down on Police Corruption‚ but of course with every department being corrupt instead of making it better for himself he is slowly digging his grave. The movie shows that corruption in the police department is very common and those whom are part of will do anything for it not to
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