NEWS
January 9, 2011 | Anil K Gupta
Thanks
to its functional institutions of democracy, India will become a
very desirable kind of superpower, free of corruption; entrepreneurial
and resource and energy efficient, says Anil K Gupta Within
two decades or less, a rapidly rising India will very likely become the
world's third largest economy - after China and the US . It
would be appropriate to start speculating now on what kind of a
superpower ...
NEWS
January 29, 2011 | V RAGHUNATHAN , ET Bureau
As
the Congress readies for its annual meeting next month, public interest
is running high. An online survey by www.people.com, an influential
news portal, showed that corruption is the issue netizens want the
Congress gathering to address most. Other issues netizens want the
session to tackle are the widening gap between rich and poor, the
skyrocketing cost of housing, the health system, pensions and education.
In another online poll, 70% of respondents urged officials to...
NEWS
October 20, 2006 | Joseph E Stiglitz
At
its recent annual meeting, World Bank officials spoke extensively about
corruption. It is an understandable concern: money that the Bank lends
to developing countries that ends up in secret bank accounts or finances
some contractors' luxurious lifestyle leaves a country more indebted,
not more prosperous. James Wolfensohn, the Bank's previous
president, and I are widely credited with putting corruption on the
Bank's agenda, against opponents who regarded...
NEWS
December 10, 2008
Apropos
of 'Tackle corruption to fight terror' (ET, Dec 9), the author has
narrated the facts on corruption nicely. His examples of corruption in
passport offices, regional transport offices, property registration
offices and customs are quite appropriate. The author's belief that
corruption is at the root of terrorism is also quite correct.
But like many other experts who have studied corruption in detail, the
author has not offered any solutions to root out corruption in the
society.
NEWS
September 7, 2003 | TNN
Everyone
who participates in the state's political system is inevitably
corrupted by it, or so it would seem. How else could a judge say with
impunity that wine and women couldn't be seen as cor-ruptive influence
since they didn't involve monetary benefit. Or a chief minister turn a
blind eye to rioters outside his palace gates. Like Ayn Rand in Atlas
Shrugged, he might just say --"we are on strike against martyrdom -- and
against the moral code the demands it. We are on strike against those
who believe that one man must...
pick
out any duplicate candy phrases, you might have them return the
duplicates to the bowl and choose replacements. Then challenge students
to write a story that includes in it all of the conversation heart
phrases they picked out of the bowl.