Profiles of Corruption in the Middle East
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Looney, Robert
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2005
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Summer 2005
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Headlines reading: "Corruption Means the Poor Stay Poor in Oil-Rich
State"3 or "Millionaire Mullahs"4 have become all too common. In fact,
one is often hard pressed to pick up a reputable newspaper without some
sort of corruption story on the politics, business or even in the sports pages.
In countries developed and developing, large or small, market-oriented or
otherwise, governments have been scarred by corruption scandals. In
some cases, not only have prominent politicians lost their official positions,
but entire governments have collapsed or been replaced...
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Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Vol. XXVIII, No. 4, Summer 2005.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.