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The ‘underdeveloped countries’have anecdotally been thecorruption centres o the world.
Dr
 
Chris Williams
, rom theCentre or InternationalEducation Research, Universityo Birmingham, proposes thatrecent research may soon turnaccepted thinking upside down.The East may soon take themoral high ground.
The ‘developing’ countries
It has been a long held belie in theWestern world that political corruptionbegins at the very highest echelonso government. The Italians even jokethat ‘a sh always rots rom the headdownwards’. So, in the late 1980s,there were no surprises when the richnations decided they would no longertolerate wayward despots wastinginternational aid. In 1989, the World Bankconcluded that ‘leaders must becomemore accountable to their peoples.Transactions must become moretransparent, and unds must be seento be properly administered.’The result was a slow but public responseto the challenge that had been laid down.In South Korea, Lee Man-Sub, ormerspeaker o the South Korean Congresscommented ‘i our leaders want to litKorea to be a ully developed country,there must be no corruption or bribery.In the uture, this will be the mostcrucial thing.’ Yun-joo Lee, a doctoralresearcher ound that Koreans put‘corruption’ rst and ‘leadership skills’second above the normal concern,‘economic development’.By the end o 2000, the ChineseDiscipline Inspection Commissionhad dealt with over 136,000communist ocials, 43,000 caseswere brought to court, many endingwith death sentences. A governmentanti-corruption lm became compulsoryviewing or all ocials –
Choicebetween Life and Death.
Leadership
 
and
 
corruption:
 
is moral authority going East?
THE MISUSE OF POWERS BY POLITICALAND NATIONAL LEADERS
EXERCISESTHE MINDS OF SOME OF THE WORLD’SGREATEST AUTHORITIES AND LEADSTO IRRESISTIBLY SALACIOUS HEADLINESFOR JOURNALISTS.
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