Beware Governments Bearing Gifts
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
IF the government suddenly and efficiently creates an anticorruption body, it is something to be wary of. Forming groups with the intention to examine the wealth of bureaucrats, ombudsmen, supervisory committees, and 1,001 other such groups without undergoing comprehensive actions is clearly only aiming to temporarily satisfy the demands of the public.
The most explicit example is one that occurred in Kenya. In August 1997, the IMF postponed all
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