But it has also been hit by incompetence, ignorance and concessions to favoured interests.
Moscow has discussed supplying heavy weapons to favoured warlords such as Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Assuming there are no loopholes, this should end whispered "earnings guidance" to favoured analysts.
Substantial election campaign contributions or other assistance may be supplied to favoured legislators or executives.
One analyst outside the group passed on important, unpublished information about companies to favoured institutional clients.
Internet accounts are available only to foreigners, or to favoured Cubans for research purposes.
The vast majority of "exclusives" in our media are nothing of the kind but sanctioned leaks to favoured reporters.
Rather than a mandatory cap, conservatives want to dole out subsidies and tax breaks to favoured industries.
Because publicly owned banks have directed credit to favoured state firms, bamboo capitalists have long been starved of capital.
Yet by the 1990s the channelling of credit to favoured companies had wrought huge damage to the Korean financial system.
They say even during the war the Qataris bypassed them, sending weapons directly to favoured units at the front.
