Word: corruptible
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...reports of corrupt politics in developing countries seem to reach newsstands with alarming frequency, Eric D. Werker ’00, an assistant professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has a rather radical plan he thinks will clean up the political scene...
...aspect of the plan that has drawn direct criticism is the idea that a company’s worries about earning a bad reputation from allegations of corrupt governance will act as enough of a check on its power...
Fisman likened elections under his proposal to a choice between, for example, Swiss auditing giant KPMG, and a candidate like Robert Mugabe, the notoriously corrupt President of Zimbabwe...
Neither Jafaari nor Allawi inspires much confidence among Iraqis: both presided over governments that were corrupt and inept, and many of the problems that now beset Iraq can be traced to their missteps. But it is now clear that Maliki has been no improvement. Worse, his stubborn refusal to reach out to Sunnis is undermining the U.S. military's efforts to pacify Iraq and begin a drawdown of American troops. From Gen. Petraeus on down, commanders have repeatedly said the "surge" operation in and around Baghdad can work only if their military gains are accompanied by progress on the political...
...even with training and consultation, it’s not always easy for foreign aid workers to distinguish legitimate local groups from the corrupt or the merely incompetent. It’s as much of an issue for big government aid programs as it is for the sailors to hand out blow pops...