When there is less money, there will be less corruption and less incentive to rent-seek.
One encouraging finding is that there does indeed appear to be less corruption in countries where public servants are paid relatively well compared with other workers.
He may have had a point: Mrs de Melgar, though she was promising better schools, less corruption and a fairer life for women, was miles behind Mr Flores in the opinion polls.
Foreign-owned banks have their reputations at home and around the world to consider, not to mention their home-country regulators, so they will be less susceptible to corruption than incumbent domestic banks.
And, as the World Bank itself acknowledged in its report on the quality of growth, poor people in developing countries need more than just money - to benefit from any growth that occurs, they need more access to jobs and education, and less discrimination and corruption.
Though they may also be less likely to claim corruption as a sign of probity.
Their essential case is that the more information corporates reveal about their activities the less possible it is that there is corruption or malfeasance in their activities.
At a panel discussion ironically called the Republic of Ideas, the scholar said "most of the corrupt" in India came from its most disadvantaged groups, but he also said that corruption among the rich was less conspicuous.
Many want to live as Europeans do, by which they mean well-off and corruption-free, but are less interested in international links.
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But many Venezuelans would prefer their president to spend less time and money overseas and more on crime, unemployment and corruption at home.
As academic evidence mounts that graft deters investment and economic growth, aid agencies tie their largesse more directly to clean government, and citizens from Argentina to Indonesia demand less venal politicians, no country can afford to ignore its reputation for corruption.
That firms complain more about corruption may be a good sign if it means they are becoming less tolerant of it.
In 1993, having only recently been acquitted by a single vote on a charge of corruption, Mr Papandreou led his party to victory with a no less remarkable 47% of the vote.
The Durabook was rather less noisy when it hit, and being turned off there were no worries about data corruption, but it too handled the fall with no issues.
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It has been less than two years since a vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest the oppressive corruption in his country, and sparked what became known as the Arab Spring.
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Citing charges of corruption, inefficiency and nepotism, then-president Ghulam Ishak Khan sacked Bhutto in 1990 less than midway through a five-year term.
Mr Gilman's view is that there was less outright pilferage than is commonly believed, though American food aid and bilateral trade credits were two areas where corruption was endemic.
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