corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government‚ or ’political’‚ corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for his or her own personal gain. Being corrupted may be the easiest way-or indeed the only way-to get what they want. At times‚ a bribe may provide a convenient means of avoiding punishment. Many who observe that politicians
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unemployment‚ poverty‚ and poor public services has tremendously increased. Secondly they seem to have no solid evidence on how to measure the cost and benefits of an anticorruption agency. Although‚ they do not have a precise reliable measurement of corruption the institutions are created essentially because of public pressure and their obligation to anticorruption. In the anticorruption domain Eastern Europe has sustained a useful laboratory for over twenty
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Corruption is one of the deadly‚ undesirable and wicked sins that has been imposed on the innocent man by some hungry looking monsters. It is omnipresent‚ almost like a distorted‚ antithetical version of God for the present times. It doesn’t sound euphonious when we hear that it has not only led to the malfunctioning of the administrative system and poor law and order‚ but also some serious causes like poverty and redtapism‚ which has led to the society’s disability. It has distorted all values and
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udy Iakovou recalls friends and loved ones being smitten with the Statue of Liberty when they visited her family and toured nearby New York. But the harbor destination she longed to see as a child was called Ellis Island. Back | Next "It was this castle out there‚ in the middle of the water‚" Iakovou said. "I’d always wonder what that was." The curiosity never faded for the Athens resident and writer‚ who thought of the historical site as a great setting for a novel. Her husband and
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An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.[1]Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.[1] Elections may fill offices in the legislature‚ sometimes in the executive and judiciary‚ and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organizations‚ from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. Suffrageedit
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Protecting Sensitive Labels in Social Network Data Anonymization ABSTRACT: Privacy is one of the major concerns when publishing or sharing social network data for social science research and business analysis. Recently‚ researchers have developed privacy models similar to k-anonymity to prevent node reidentification through structure information. However‚ even when these privacy models are enforced‚ an attacker may still be able to infer one’s private information if a group of nodes largely share
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Civil Society Engagement in Anti-Corruption Crusade: Protecting the Whistle Blower By Hon. (Dr) Okezie Kelechukwu (Executive Director‚ Neighbourhood Environment Watch Foundation/ newebonyi@yahoo.com Being a paper presented at A 3-Day International Conference on Corruption‚ Governance and Development in Nigeria
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According to Morris‚[3] corruption is described as the illegitimate use of public power to benefit a private interest. Senior‚[4] however‚ defines corruption as an action to (a) secretly provide (b) a good or a service to a third party (c) so that he or she can influence certain actions which (d) benefit the corrupt‚ a third party‚ or both (e) in which the corrupt agent has authority. Scales of corruption[edit] Corruption can occur on different scales. There is corruption that occurs as small favours
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MANILA‚ Philippines—The Philippines is still perceived as one of the most corrupt countries in the world‚ getting a score of 34 on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being very clean‚ according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International. But the Philippines has at least outranked its neighbors Vietnam‚ Indonesia and Bangladesh‚ which all fared better than the country in the previous CPI‚ said TI‚ a civil society organization that promotes transparency and accountability.
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Corruption in Indonesia Indonesia that has been considered as one of the corrupted country in Asia and the world because of the corruption in Indonesia is something that becomes a habitual. Indonesia have corruption opinion index 2.6 from 10. These index makes us in the position 143 from 179 investigate country. Other investigation that use to test Indonesia capabilities which is: business easiness indicator by World Bank show us Indonesia need 12 procedures‚ 151 days or working and 130.7% cost
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