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Abstract/Sommario: Corruption has scaled unimaginable heights in the reform era driven by private capital seeking to manipulate public policy. A study published in November 2010 by the international advocacy group Global Financial Integrity found that corruption, tax evasion and trade mispricing have cost India hundreds of billions of dollars over the past two decades. I successivi articoli: Capital gains / C. P. Chandrasekhar (In a liberalised regime, the private sector may find itself having to share ...; [Leggi tutto...] Corruption has scaled unimaginable heights in the reform era driven by private capital seeking to manipulate public policy. A study published in November 2010 by the international advocacy group Global Financial Integrity found that corruption, tax evasion and trade mispricing have cost India hundreds of billions of dollars over the past two decades. I successivi articoli: Capital gains / C. P. Chandrasekhar (In a liberalised regime, the private sector may find itself having to share the transfers it receives with the decision-makers involved. What is required is a change in the policy that legitimises the conversion of the state into a site for the primitive accumulation of capital); Liberalisation has led to mega corruption / T. S. Subramanian (interview with N. Viottal: under the permit-licence raj, it was retail corruption involving individuals trying to get licenses. After liberalisation, politicians can make money only by mega-corruption, which come only through policymaking. People want to grab power to make money or grab money to come to power: it is a vicious cycle); Fixing responsibility / A.A. Mahaprashsta (The Union Government had to force resignation of Telecom Minister A. Raja for his alleged involvement in the scandal of corruption in the allocation of licenses); Land troubles / V. A. Sayeed (corruption and nepotism over allotment of denotified land acquired by government agencies); Money rules / Ravi Sharma ( politic scandals in Karnataka: the mixing of business interests linked to the mining industry and politics)

Abstract/Sommario: Jerusalem, with its sacred sites of three religions, is a magnet for the devout people and for students of history: where else can one touch the wall which King Solomon built three millennia ago, retrace the footsteps of Christ bearing the cross, and visit the mosque at the site where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven?