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...Feingold has a point. After 10 years in power, the Republicans have become as arrogant and, arguably, corrupt-yes, you, Congressman Tom DeLay-as the Democrats were when their 40 years of legislative control was mercifully halted in 1994. But there is a difference...
...nearly 300 pages, Douthat offers us no solution, no recourse for reforming the system he finds so corrupt. The question hangs over the book like a dagger: Where do we go from here? Our current meritocracy doesn’t work perfectly, but it works well. After all, Harvard got Douthat where he wants to be—he’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic Monthly and the author of a potentially bestselling book. He can’t be too upset about...
...poor." Economic reformers didn't like that. "Our concern for fighting poverty should not mean that we continue with inefficient subsidies," says Jayaprakash Narayan, founder of Lok Satta, an NGO that focuses on good governance. Narayan argues that subsidies for food and fertilizer mostly end up with corrupt bureaucrats and inefficient manufacturers, and does little for the poor themselves. Higher spending means the government will likely miss its deficit-reduction targets for next year. Yet Chidambaram insists that he remains on track to contain India's deficit. "I have made a solemn commitment that we will resume on the path...
...work. They would also accept the fact that the poor may need help to meet their basic needs. But they might be skeptical that the world could pull off any effective way to give that help. If the poor are poor because they are lazy or their governments are corrupt, how could global cooperation help...
...outside world has pat answers concerning extremely impoverished countries, especially those in Africa. Everything comes back, again and again, to corruption and misrule. Western officials argue that Africa simply needs to behave itself better, to allow market forces to operate without interference by corrupt rulers. Yet the critics of African governance have it wrong. Politics simply can't explain Africa's prolonged economic crisis. The claim that Africa's corruption is the basic source of the problem does not withstand serious scrutiny. During the past decade I witnessed how relatively well-governed countries in Africa, such as Ghana, Malawi, Mali...