[Assam] From ToI/India world leader in greasing palms

[Ram Sarangapani]

Hehehe!

Thats really bad. Wonder what that tells of us (who came from India). Is it
possible to dealienate ourselves from the desh?
Maybe this is one reason that some in Assam want to be a separate desh (of
sorts).

And how on earth am I going to explain this away to the folks at work?:)

--Ram



On 10/4/06, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
>
> What did I tell you :-)?
>
> cm
>
>
> India world leader in greasing palms
> [ 5 Oct, 2006 0031hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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> LONDON/NEW DELHI: India doesn't just have loads
> of corruption at home, it is also the world
> leader in exporting graft.
>
> Months after Transparency International ranked
> India as among the more corrupt societies in the
> world, the NGO發�s Bribe Payer's Index 2006 shows
> that Indian exporters are more willing than their
> counterparts from other countries to pay overseas
> bribes to secure business, clinch contracts, do
> deals and generally get on in the world.
>
> Of the 30 countries surveyed by the index, India
> was the worst 發" or most willing to give 發"
> followed by China and Russia.
>
> With Brazil also ranking pretty low as the
> eighth biggest bribe giver, the BRIC nations 發"
> the foursome of Brazil, Russia, India and China
> 發" predicted to become among the biggest
> economies in the world by 2050 發" emerge as
> being prepared to do whatever it takes to enhance
> their share of the global trade pie.
>
> While this is the third BPI released by
> Transparency, after the ones in 1999 and 2002, it
> is the first time India has featured in the index.
>
> It was considered too economically insignificant
> and lacking global spread and reach in the
> earlier rounds. Liaoran Liao, Transparency
> International programme coordinator for South
> Asia, told  TOI  on Wednesday that it was
> definitely bad news for India to make its first
> outing on the BPI with a most-corrupt ranking for
> its newly jet-setting companies.
>
> "In 1999 and 2002, India was not listed on the
> BPI," said Liaoran, "but now India is considered
> an emerging economy and an emerging export power,
> so the CEOs and MDs ranked its companies."
>
> The newest league table was compiled after
> asking 11,000 top business executives in 125
> countries to rank foreign companies in order of
> their propensity to bribe in the World Economic
> Forum's Executive Opinion Survey.
>
> Transparency said the executives ranked India
> bottom of the list of 30 countries. The
> executives suggested Indians seemed ready to do
> business by paying bribes or making extra
> payments.
>
> The BPI ranked Swiss companies as least likely
> to use brown envelopes and backhanders to get the
> job done. No Asian country figures in the list of
> the ten cleanest countries. Japan figures
> eleventh followed by Singapore.
>
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