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Author | : Paul A Volcker |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786735627 |
Despite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program: More than 2,200 companies paid 1.8 billion in illegal surcharges and kickbacks to the Iraqi regime The UN Security Council stood by as the Iraqi regime outright smuggled about 8.4 billion of oil during the Program years in violation of UN sanctions The Iraqi regime steered oil contracts for political advantage by giving rights to buy oil to dozens of global political figures sympathetic to Iraq's goal to loosen or overturn the UN sanctions The Iraqi regime provided Benon Sevan, the UN's chief administrator of the Program, with rights to buy more than 7 million barrels of oil UN-related humanitarian agencies collected tens of millions of dollars for costs they never incurred, and some built factories in Iraq that weren't needed or that never worked at all. Even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was tainted by it But the whole story has never been told in one place.
Author | : Bruce Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Penguin Mass Market |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780140160000 |
A blistering portrait of an ongoing international scandal--with a new afterword that provides a front-line report on the latest developments in the AIDS crisis. Nussbaum tells of vaulting ambition and greed, of vast sums of money filtered through government agencies and into the profit statements of the manufacturer of AZT, Burroughs Wellcome. 16 pages of photographs.
Author | : Alexandra Gillies |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-12-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190940727 |
Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to secretive shell companies; the Panama Papers leak triggered investigations in 79 countries; and, corruption scandals toppled heads of state in Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea. But how do these pieces fit together? And if the corruption is so vast and so tied up with powerful interests, how do we begin to fight back? To find answers, Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the recent oil boom. From 2008 to 2014, oil prices shot through the roof. Motivated by more than nine trillion dollars in new oil money, corruption followed apace. Examining the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in the circulatory system of global corruption, and watching as it reveals the system's channels and pathways. Company bosses signed off on risky schemes to snap up choice oil blocks. Politicians in Brazil and Nigeria stole billions to build up their election war chests. Kleptocrats in Angola, Azerbaijan, and Russia seized upon the oil wealth to cement their hold on power. And an army of bankers, accountants, and lawyers lined up to help these corrupt actors stash their loot in the global system of shell companies and tax havens that serves today's super-rich. The money then bought yachts, mansions, and even a few foreign politicians. Drawing on information exposed by intrepid journalists, prosecutors, and whistle blowers, Crude Intentions tells jaw-dropping stories of corruption and asks what we can learn from them. The cases reveal common tactics, but also vulnerabilities in this web of fraud. These are the starting points for building a smarter fight against corruption, in the oil sector and well beyond.
Author | : William McGowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781893554603 |
"This is the provocative argument that drives William McGowan's Coloring the News, a brave, searching work that examines journalism's most controversial issue. McGowan presents a fascinating insider's analysis of how a well-intentioned attempt to accommodate minorities and minority viewpoints has been overtaken by political correctness, which determines what stories get reported in the "elite" media and how. Along the way he dissects how the press has "mistold" key stories including California's Proposition 209 vote, the allegedly "racist" burnings of black churches in the South, the military's ongoing problems with the integration of women and gays, and the consequences of a chaotic immigration policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Fritz F. Heimann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019045833X |
Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair competition for global trade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a realistic assessment of the present state of affairs by critically evaluating what existing anticorruption programs and treaties have accomplished and documenting their shortcomings, while developing an action agenda for the next decade. The authors argue that reformative action is imperative, and the forces of globalization and digital communication will level the playing field and erode the secrecy corruption requires. They define corruption, document its effects, discuss the initiatives that changed public perception, analyze the lessons learned, and then evaluate how to move forward with existing initiatives charting a new path with new, differentiated strategies.
Author | : Fritz Heimann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190458364 |
Corruption undermines nearly all key legal and developmental priorities today, including the effective functioning of democratic institutions and honest elections; environmental protection; human rights and human security; international development programs; and fair competition for global trade and investment. This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War. It provides a realistic assessment of the present state of affairs by critically evaluating what existing anticorruption programs and treaties have accomplished and documenting their shortcomings, while developing an action agenda for the next decade. The authors argue that reformative action is imperative, and the forces of globalization and digital communication will level the playing field and erode the secrecy corruption requires. They define corruption, document its effects, discuss the initiatives that changed public perception, analyze the lessons learned, and then evaluate how to move forward with existing initiatives charting a new path with new, differentiated strategies.
Author | : Robin Boon Peng Low |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9813200596 |
Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief packages regardless of the location, and a lack of effort taken to match volunteers' skills with tasks, just how effective are we at helping others?Many people want to do good, but they like to do it at their convenience. These attempts at helping often fail, and the blame invariably falls on the disaster victims, rather than looking at the suitability of aid provided. Such help, offered without a thorough understanding of the context or the impact of actions, can create situations that leave the victims worse off than before.So how can we create real sustainable impact?Most communities have a lot of unused human capacity. When offering help, many aid providers fail to engage the local communities, thus excluding a critical group of people with the knowledge of local ways and needs.This book elaborates on a simple principle essential to effective aid — Never Help: Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect.It is important that we fully understand the problem before we try to solve it, and who better to help us with solutions than the local community?
Author | : Ganahl, Joseph Patrick |
Publisher | : Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 386956248X |
African states are often called corrupt, indicating that the political system in Africa differs from the one prevalent in economically advanced democracies. This, however, does not give us any insight into what makes corruption the dominant norm of African statehood. Thus we must turn to the overly neglected theoretical work on the political economy of Africa in order to determine how the poverty of governance in Africa is firmly anchored both in Africa’s domestic socioeconomic reality, as well as in the region’s role in the international economic order. Instead of focusing on increased monitoring, enforcement and formal democratic procedures, this book combines economic analysis with political theory in order to arrive at a better understanding of the political-economic roots of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Author | : Susan Rose-Ackerman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316654109 |
The second edition of Corruption and Government updates Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 book to address emerging issues and to rethink old questions in light of new data. The book analyzes the research explosion that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of Transparency International, and the World Bank's decision to give anti-corruption policy a key place on its agenda. Time has vindicated Rose-Ackerman's emphasis on institutional reform as the necessary condition for serious progress. The book deals with routine payoffs and with corruption in contracting and privatization. It gives special attention to political corruption and to instruments of accountability. The authors have expanded the treatment of culture as a source of entrenched corruption and added chapters on criminal law, organized crime, and post-conflict societies. The book outlines domestic conditions for reform and discusses international initiatives - including both explicit anti-corruption policies and efforts to constrain money laundering.
Author | : Aden John |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2012-12-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 147722596X |
Whatever might have possibly existed in times past, whatever might have been said and done in times past, wherever that might have been, as long as it happened on this same singular universe, there remains a record of all those activities. And certainly, there is an archive wherein all those details are regularly been kept. Even as you, the reader, reads and even as I, the writer, writes before you can read, just as we understand the purpose of a video recording, there is an immaterial but automatic instant storing system in the spiritual. Spiritually, those records are stored somewhere in the universewithin the galactic masses. As the Christ is all and in all, it follows that all these huge volumes of data are archived inside the galactic structure of the Christ. In addition to these historical archives, there are also records of future events as well, and they remain accessible. Beautifully, anyone and everyone so privileged by God Almighty can have access to these data and see them in real time modebut only spiritually and not physically. Sadly, as these data are spiritual and the entity of Satan, who is a spirit, is still resident within time, he and his demonic cohorts equally can access (actually crack and hack into) these huge tons of data at will. By the spiritual nature of the fallen man, his spirit no longer has direct accesses to these data bank, and so he needs a spiritual guide to lead him all the way. On Gods part, He leads the spirits of men (through unique dreams, daytime trances, visions, the spirit of prophecy, etc.) all at his own will. But on the part of Satan who is the hacking spirit, he can lead the spirits of men both at his own will and at the will of the restless man. As expected, with the illegal methods of Satan (whether by spiritism, mediums, crystal balls, channeling arts, telepathy, projections, and meditations, diabolism), there are bound to be troubles as there is a penalty for erring and gross misconducts. And irrespective of the privilege of such knowing, that power to bring about any good and positive result remains absent. Honorably, in Christ Jesus, whoever is privileged to have a look into these data at Gods will remains blessed and also gains that power to bring about every positive results and or changes. Now we must know the in and out of all thingswe must find the Truth and so get to understand that everything is all contained in Jesus, the Christ. www.yousayyouloveme.org www.rhabbonilove.org