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Kenya ranks near the bottom of Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, beaten only by such "show-me-the-money" countries as Nigeria and Indonesia. High-level corruption continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure...
...Kenyan chapter of Transparency International suggests that small, everyday bribes are just as costly as big-time fraud. Researchers asked more than 1,000 Kenyans how often they were hit up for bribes, how much they paid and whether things were getting worse. Respondents to the Kenyan Urban Bribery Index, as the survey is called, paid around 16 bribes a month, an average of $100 or one-third of respondents' mean monthly income. Most respondents said things were getting worse. The biggest bribe takers, according to the findings, are law-enforcement institutions like the police and the judiciary. The immigration...
...NCAA selection and seeding criteria, the rating percentages index (RPI)—a weighted average of a team’s record, its opponents’ records, and its opponents’ opponents’ records—is by far the most crucial for determining Harvard’s seeding...
...very least, Japanese thought - both collectively and individually - they could live a long time on the savings accrued in better times. Maybe not. And then earlier this month, two numbers that were never again supposed to cross - the Nikkei and Dow industrial average - converged when the Japanese index dropped below the Dow - portending finally, truly, absolutely, that Japan was now back where it started - trailing the West...
Some have argued that grade inflation has not occurred at all, and that higher grades instead reflect a more talented student body as reflected by Harvard’s increasingly competitive admissions process. The Ivy League’s academic index for first-years, based on both their SATs and high school GPAs, has been rising. Students might also be producing better work because of the increasingly prevalent use of technology. Through the use of computers, and especially the Internet, students have more valuable educational resources at their fingertips than ever before...