The British high commissioner to Malawi, Michael Nevin, said withholding the aid was not about punishing the country: "We want [the] government to put its house in order by implementing systems that will not allow pilferage of public funds".
Indian states are now reforming power distribution in an effort to stop the large-scale pilferage and waste of power.With a few exceptions (mainly China), all this may mean the death of the gigantic power project.
It seems perverse to wait until 2004 at the earliest to find that out for sure.Stephen QuigleyChairman, European Movement, Sussex BranchMerston, West SussexLosses at seaSIR – An important benefit of containerisation that you omit from your obituary of Malcolm McLean (June 2nd) was the end of wholesale pilferage.
He puts his pilferage at a modest 2kg of rice for every 52kg-sack he handles.
It not only reduced pilferage by alerting the shopkeeper when the till was opened; by recording every transaction, it also provided an instant overview of what was happening in the business.Sales data remain one of a company's most important assets.
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.
In a retail store, for example, the principal security concerns are shoplifting and employee dishonesty (e.g., pilferage, embezzlement, and fraud).
The reason for this is that the goods moving through a system are valuable and therefore are targets for pilferage by employees or organized thefts conducted by outsiders.
The policies generally exclude losses resulting from pilferage, strike, riot, civil commotion, war, delay of shipments, loss of markets, illegal trade, or leakage and breakage.
What it will eliminate is pusego - a catchall word that covers pilferage (p), underpouring (u), spillage (s), evaporation (e), giveaways (g), and overpouring (o).
