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Why would a minister bother with corruption, so the argument goes, when he can take home S$1.6m $$1.3m) a year for just keeping on the straight and narrow?Maybe.
Zephyr Teachout's argument in "Corruption in America" follows an argument that Lessig made in his book "Republic, Lost" (2011).
As sardonic critics of this argument say, "Corruption has a black face".
A path to true reconsideration would likely require an argument that corruption is a problem even if it falls short of a literal quid pro quo exchange of money for a political act.
The results add further weight to the widely accepted argument that corruption and tax evasion have a negative impact on economic development because they divert public resources for private use and erode the government's tax base, ultimately impeding efforts to reduce poverty [ 25].
There are many important issues being contested: recovery from the tsunami, an uneasy ceasefire in the long-running civil war, arguments over corruption.
That brings us back to this week's summit – because it's here that developing nations such as Nigeria will join campaigning groups to make the argument that modern corruption now has a white face.
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Besides citing the traditional Eastern arguments attacking Western corruption of early Christian doctrine, Anthimus made new charges occasioned by Roman Catholic teaching formulated during the 19th century.
— Former Representative William J. Jefferson put his office up for sale and intended to get "top dollar for it," prosecutors said Wednesday in closing arguments at his corruption trial.
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