waged between these two powers is the Second Punic War. This war‚ waged between the years of 218 – 201 B.C‚ saw Rome come dangerously close to her own demise. The Carthaginian campaign in Italy‚ led by Hannibal Barca‚ was immensely destructive and costly for Rome. It is interesting to note‚ however‚ that Hannibal never led a direct campaign against the City of Rome—a detail that has been both praised and criticized. One would naturally then ask‚ why did Hannibal never lead such a campaign? An investigation
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Introduction Corruption is a topic of interest and concern in academic circles‚ in the media‚ among people of different professions‚ within the civil service‚ among members of parliament‚ politicians‚ government officials‚ members of the business and financial communities‚ students‚ foreign investors‚ and so on. In other words‚ the term corruption is not new to Bangladesh. We all know that Bangladesh is one of the most corrupted country in the world. Bangladesh is the five times champions in corruption in
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EASSAY Causes of Corruption in PAKISTAN Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It hurts everyone who depends on the integrity of people in a position of authority. Corruption is an evil which has played havoc with the socio-economic development of Pakistan. Corruption is a curse and major hurdle to the progress of Pakistan. Pakistan faces many types of corruption. Commonly known types are 1) Systematic corruption 2) Sporadic (individual) corruption 3) Political
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Public Financial Management and Corruption[1] Public Financial Management (PFM) ordinarily covers the management of government revenue‚ expenditure and cash. Corruption defined as the diversion of public resources for private use can affect any of these operations‚ at the level of the national and sub-national administrations. This paper focuses on circumstances that are prone to corruptive practices in managing expenditure and cash at the national level. It does not discuss revenue. The outline
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy corruption is defined as the abuse of power by a public official for private gain. Police corruption is the abuse of power by a police officer for their own personal gain. Police officers become corrupt mainly for monetary gain because most feel that police officers do not make enough money and they want to make more. Police corruption can be costly to society and it can even violate the rights of society. Police corruption can show favoritism to some and unfairness
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The Independent Commission for Good Governance in Public Services‚ chaired by Sir Alan Langlands‚ worked throughout 2004. Through two rounds of consultation‚ the Commission drew on the views of a wide range of people with experience of governance‚ and of service users and citizens‚ to produce the Good Governance Standard for Public Services. The Standard presents six principles of good governance that are common to all public service organisations and are intended to help all those with an
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Akuntansi Sektor Publik dan Good Governance Pengertian governance dapat diartikan sebagai cara mengelola urusan-urusan publik. World Bank memberikan definisi governance sebagai ”the way state power is used in managing economic and social resources for development of society”. Sementara itu‚ United Nation Development Program (UNDP) mendefinisikan governance sebagai “the exercise of political‚ economic‚ and administrative authority to manage a nation’s affair at all levels”. Dalam hal ini‚ World
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The benefits to a company of practising good corporate governance are now well known. It can raise capital more cheaply in a world where capital is a scarce resource; when it has a downturn it will have support from its stakeholders in its turnaround attempt; its business will be more sustainable; when the board makes a wrong business judgment call – and dealing with uncertain future events it will do so – it will not be seen as a scandal but as a consequence of the risk/reward ratio involved in
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good enough to deserve your respect or attention. Verb; To think that something that something Is not good enough to deserve your respect. b) Affluent: (formal word) Having a lot of money and a good standard of living. c) Tenacious: (formal word) That does not not stop holding something or give up something easily; determined or continue to exist have influence; e.t.c. for longer than you might think. d)Compound: (academic word – noun – adj – verb)noun; a thing consisting of two or more separate things
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businesses have grown. Therefore‚ these created the need for them to assume greater societal responsibilities rather than mere ruthless pursuit of own profits. Many businesses today share the same viewpoint that making profit for profit’s sake no longer leads to sustainable performance‚ stakeholder management has become an increasingly important aspect of a business’ operation integrating traditional economic considerations with environmental and social concerns (Jones 2012). While doing well and doing
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