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--win them over. Yeah.Bribery. Yeah. So it was quite fun.And then you've got to direct drunkards at that point.
discover or have figured out that the school build buildings collapsed because the people who built the buildingsbribed the local officials to use substandard concrete everyone knew Sichuan Province was an earthquake proneZone there were building standards to keep those buildings from collapsing but they cost more and so the corruption
What is it called?Bribery? We go to jail.Just firing the superintendent, you don't go to jail.
based in China the problem is that ecosystem is not open so a company might be very successful you might have abribery corruption something that's a little dirty and that is also not not
called drive against bribes campaign in July 2006 where a call was given to the nation that now you don't need to paybribes in India use RTI it is more effective than briy and in those 15 days1st July to 15th July 2006 there were about 700 organizations who
the international transparency movement is a guy named Marko Rakar, who several years ago he had a printing business, um, and ah, a tax auditor came to him and basically demandeda bribe, ah, in order to get a clean tax bill. And Marko refused to pay the bribe and as a result this guy basically hounded his hounded him out of business, drove his printing businessinto bankruptcy. And this was early in the days of blogging and he decided to start a blog called Pollitika, which is sort of like the Daily Kos. Uh, is it's one of these sites
measuring corruption and violence is difficult think about it if the person giving a bribe and the person receivinga bribe are doing a halfway decent job it's never going to show up on a balance sheet or a tax earn or any sort of official statisticso we do in the book is we develop forensic techniques to try to find the fingerprints left behind by corruption
here in America is that it's nearly unsolvable in the window of time that we're talking about because we've lost our democracy in America. But we'velegalized bribery that happened back in Supreme Court decisions in 1976 78 andthen of course Citizens United. And so since we have legalized bribery in this country, there's no way they're going to
But one of the issues that they brought to light was that even though they have great products and they're able to execute well on it, there's always this cultural notionof bribes, especially when you're trying to secure certain government contracts.Patrick Awuah: Right. Female #1: And different things.
It's come up a little.I can bribe them with snacks and champagne.
in regions of the continent where they themselves do not want to live because of the climate and malaria, they would empower local often corrupt men, people whowere slipped to a bribe, often military men who they had been trained abroad.They found essentially the worst amongst us to forcibly rule over these large nations
I think you might have-- Well, he's trying to convert me from Apple.It's basically a bribe.It is a bribe.
It's basically a bribe.It is a bribe.Yeah, I think the other side, which we might do.
heater inside when we weren't filming and the camera operator got to be in the tent but nobody else did so that's howyou you'd bribe the camera operator to get into the tent and then then you'd bewarm otherwise my hands are getting cold um we have one question from the Dory uh this is from Christine uh she asks if
In 2006, there were two different ways to escape North Korea.One where you bribe the soldiers, or the river guards, and you go to China.But of course that price-- the cost of that amount of money that you have to give to soldiers is-- it's a lot of money that I didn't have.
And you can get the peanut.If you pay a bribe, yeah, there's always somebody who is willing to pay more than you.And after a while, it's a tough game.
I used every bribe, every bargaining chip I could think of, which included football game tickets, really good craft beer, and also future offspring.
pledged guilty to bribery, but also issuing documents which inflated the health of the economy,
quite a process-- Bribery.
It's bribery-- no, but it works.
It can be bribery and so on.
And they bribed the train driver to stop.
I even have bribes here.
was some bribery scandal at the Ministry of Mines or the US, the DEA investigators and the FBI
And the thing is, what I found is that when it really comes down to it, you can get thingsdone without paying bribes.You might be slowed down a little bit, but when it becomes very clear to people that this is not going to happen, then they let you get on with it.
In terms of the bribes, I mean the people who take the bribes I think will be quite stupid to then say, "No. We want our bribes please don't do this."
me the usual retainers bribery was not even a crime in the United States Congress until
tool in the hands of Ordinary People how it has empowered Ordinary People First of all I would like to know how many ofyou have paid bribes so far my God there's a lot of people hereand there would be many more people who have faced demands from for Bri I mean there'll be many more people who face
Ordinary People and there are thousands and thousands of such examples where people are using RTI we did a campaigncalled drive against bribes campaign in July 2006 where a call was given to the nation that now you don't need to paybribes in India use RTI it is more effective than briy and in those 15 days
have any legitimate work pending in any government Department you don't need to pay bribes in India use RTI it is moreeffective than bribery so please spread this message please start using it spread this message to your friends leagues on your Yahoo groups GoogleGroups all kinds of groups and please uh please let the people know that they should use RDI and there is a website
So I had to walk around and bribe people into writing things up as patents.
whereas President Kabila would personally get a bribe in the millions of dollars and then sell off Congolese mining concessions at billions under market value.
So I decided to leave North Korea.And I didn't have money to bribe, so I just tried out of nowhere.And very fortunately, I made it to China.
So he landed in prison over a bribe that he had taken related to one of these fish farms.
It wasn't called a bribe.
He had to sort of basically bribe teachers to use the site.
It's probably doing that as a bribe, so that a bird or someone will want to eat it, and help move the seed around.
And he had taken a bribe on my very case.
I knew nothin' about the bribe.
that allows us as economists to study them economic gangsters are violentbrutal corrupt they steal embezzle they bribe but their behavior is often verycalculating very cunning and it's that aspect that allows us to apply the tools of economics to try to understand them
Make little sacrifices and little bribes so they do their job and keep an sacrifices and little bribes so they do their job and keep an
are driving up the energy cost for everybody in that community that they're based in and I couldn't believe it. But then I thought okaysince we have basically legalized bribery in America that probably is true they probably you know given enough campaign contributions to make thishappen and it turns out they have. No, if you're going to do a data center you have to pay for it and you have to pay
So I will take all bribes.
from the daily grind of extortion and bribery.
more than $200 million in bribes every year, the potential for that is huge. If it works, then it's huge. And I'm not saying that it will work, but it's exciting that India is
not doing it either for expectation of Bri or they are not doing it because it's simple bureaucratic liaj now youdon't need to pay bribes in India use RTI it is more effective than briy I'll give you the example of a person callednanu nanu is a daily wage laborer he applied he had a ration card he lost his
It's come up a little.Well, I can bribe my kids, but yes.
I was never going to sleep with a man to get a job.And I was never going to pay a bribe.Now, everybody assured me there were a perfect formula to fail, especially the bribe in Nigerian context.
And so we wanted to serve oysters for you guys to bribe you into coming.
He knew that they was up on the bribe.
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