Questions tagged [corruption]
Corruption is where a government official acts in their own interests, often over the interests of their position or country.
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Why won't the Chinese government increase salary in order to reduce political corruption?
It just got slightly less difficult to be a clean Chinese official.
State media reported on Jan. 20 that Chinese civil servants had
received their first pay raise in ten years, a move that includes a ...
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What are the arguments for allowing MPs in the UK to work second jobs?
UK parliamentarians are permitted to hold second jobs unless they are ministers. Many MPs, particularly amongst the Conservatives, have availed themselves of this opportunity. For example, Jacob Rees-...
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How could it be that the head of a Russian region asks officials to pay off debts of its residents?
As someone who has learned Russian, I read news from Russian news agencies from time to time, and one of them is TASS, a state-owned news agency, which has recently published a news article that left ...
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Why does expelled former American congressperson, George Santos, still have access to the United States of America's Congressional House floor?
Why does disgraced former American congressperson, George Santos (AKA Anthony Devolder AKA Anthony Zabrovsky allegedly AKA Kitara Ravache) still have access to the United States of America's ...
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Was any reform made at the World Bank to prevent a country for using its influence to pressure World Bank officials to alter its data?
China has tried over the past two decades to increase its influence
over international institutions, including the IMF and the World
Health Organization, and their policies.
The changes made to the ...
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What were Iswaran's 9 dropped charges and why were they dropped?
In January 2024, Singaporean politician S. Iswaran resigned after being charged with corruption.
The Straits Times (2024-01-18):
[Iswaran's defence lawyer Davinder Singh] said cautioned statements ...
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Why is the French Minister of Education's son accused of bypassing the national higher studies selection system by making a single choice of school?
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was recently designated as the French Minister of Education. She triggered a few controversies, the last one being that her son somehow bypassed the national system of selection ...
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When was the last time there was a large purge in the Chinese military?
China did not say why the previous defense minister, Li Shangfu, was
removed from office in October after being absent from public view for
two months.
But U.S. officials say Li probably was caught up ...
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Is anyone held accountable when the Pentagon fails its audit?
Bloomberg reports that:
The US Defense Department failed for the sixth consecutive year to
score a clean financial audit, a goal routinely achieved annually by
businesses that have a fraction of its $...
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Which Western democracy has the harshest punishments for corruption charges?
Xu Guojun, the head of a Bank of China branch in Southern China from
1993 to 2001, was convicted of embezzling 2.3 billion yuan ($325m;
£255m).
The case is the latest development in President Xi ...
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Is corruption viewed generally positive by officials in charge of asylum claims? [closed]
I have heard of and been involved in cases where people from authoritarian corrupt countries tried to seek asylum on such grounds, as they have a strong conviction that corruption is bad and they ...
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Is there any accountability for the money the US provides for the war in Ukraine?
While Zelensky is in the US asking for more funds to support the war in Ukraine I read on the media that there was some debate whether it is worth or not to keep funding them. I got the feeling that ...
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What is the best objective comparison of the level of corruption in Russia to other countries?
I am looking for the best objective source to compare corruption in Russia to other countries. The often cited Corruption Perceptions Index (as far as I can tell) is not objective since it is based on ...
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What is the reason that Russia is much richer even though they are corrupt at LDC-level? [closed]
LDC = Least Developed Country.
Russia and Pakistan both sit at the bottom of the CPI's 2022 corruption perception index. Russia's position is 137/180. Russia also faces economic sanctions. However, ...
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Is there any practical way to bring the military generals under accountability in Pakistan?
A huge number of people in Pakistan see the military as the savior of the country. There is a popular opinion inside Pakistan that the Pakistan Military's dominance must exist as long as the Indian ...