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"All the jobs and money go to those who have relatives in power, and corruption is everywhere. How else could they build these big houses? Nobody cares about the poor[...]"
Abdul Ghani, 47, an Afghan farmer who came to the city to find a job but stays unhired
The Washington Post, USA, 12 January 2009
“Bribery was Siemens’s business model (…) Siemens had institutionalized corruption.”
Uwe Dolata, the spokesman for the association of federal criminal investigators in Germany
The New York Times, USA, 20 December 2008
"The problem of corruption has still not been resolved since the time when Berlusconi used to say in Milan that you can't build anything without waving a checkbook,"
Corriere della Sera in an editorial about the problem of corruption in Italy
Agence France-Presse, Italy, 21 December 2008
"We estimate that a country that improves its governance from a relatively low level to an average level could almost triple the income per capita of its population in the long term, and similarly reduce infant mortality and illiteracy."
Daniel Kaufmann, who spearheaded the World Bank's efforts to improve the study of governance and the rule of law
Reuters, USA, 17 December 2008