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90% of the world's wealth is owned by 10% of the population.
ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems can help to prevent this.
You are either in the Corruption Loop or Quality Loop.
Take your choice?
Named and Shamed
May 16th 2002 from The Economist print edition.
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 According to Transparency International, an anti-corruption organisation, Russian and Chinese companies are paying bribes in developing countries "on an exceptional and intolerable scale". In rich countries, companies from Italy, America and Japan score poorly, despite their anti-bribery laws and conventions. American and British companies' record, reckons Transparency International, has deteriorated since 1999.
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Transparency International
Bribe Payers Index
Bribery in business sectors
- by size of bribe
www.transpareny.org
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2002
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Total sample
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835
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The results
reflect the percentage of respondents who mentioned the particular sector.
This
question was not posed in the BPI 1999.
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`Public works/
construction
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46%
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Arms and
defence
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38%
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Oil and gas
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21%
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Banking
and finance
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15%
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Real
estate/property
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11%
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Pharmaceutical/medicare
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10%
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Power
generation/transm.
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10%
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Telecoms
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9%
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IT
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6%
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Forestry
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5%
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Mining
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5%
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Transportation/storage
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5%
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Heavy
manufacturing
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4%
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Agriculture
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3%
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Fishery
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3%
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Civilian
aerospace
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2%
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Light
manufacturing
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1%
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The uncorrupt
Oct 21st 2004
From The Economist print edition
Sixty of the world's countries are plagued by rampant corruption, defined as a score of less than three on the annual index compiled by Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation. The index focuses on the misuse of public office for private gain. Countries are scored from zero to ten, with ten indicating the least corruption. Once again this year, Finland remains the least corrupt country in the world.
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