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Mayor Bloomberg Confronts Occupy Wall Street
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This Times editorial questions whether Mayor Bloomberg did the right thing in the manner in which he ousted protestors from Zucotti park in the financial district of New York city. Now that the protestors have been forcibly removed from the park, it is the responsibility of the Mayor to keep his promise to let the demonstrators continue their protest against income inequality, says the editorial. The concern is that the end of the protests at Zucotti park could end up quashing the entire protest movement, which serves to draw attention to serious issues in a democracy.
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China Plans Tax Change to Address Inequality
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Nigeria- corruption, lack of financial transparency and mismanagement of resources
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Nigeria Finance Cleanup Gains Momentum
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Americaâs Sinking Middle Class
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China's difficult political-economic choices in the post 2010 period.
01/06/2008
The difficult choices in the new environment- transition to a new leadership, how to change the export model without serious disruptions, how to deal with western demands for balanced global growth, dealing with the inequality and corruption generated in the kind of growth China experienced (by the fiat of the State), opening up freedom of expression to curb corruption and to provide representation for hitherto blocked out voices, transition to freedom of expression and democratic processes without serious disruption to thegrowth needed for employment and improvements in the standard of living across all parts of society and regions, reducing or channelling to constructive ends prevailing nationalistic, anti-western or anti-Japanese sentiment. The new leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang is expected to be more outward looking than than of Hu Jintao and Wen Biao and comes at atime when China needs to make some difficult choices about future direction.
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Chinaâs Economy, Back on Track
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Xia Yeliang: The China Americans Don't See
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Increasing disparities in income in major U.S. urban areas in 2009-2013
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Unsettling Vision of the Future- Poverty and Hunger in America.
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Comparing Occupy Wall Street and the Anti Corruption Movement of Anna Hazare in India
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Corruption, gangsterism, and abuse of power at the local level in China.
10/01/2009
Some things are reminiscent of when the Koumintang was in power. The perception still is that redress of grievances can be obtained in Beijing, even though the central governmet cannot control local corrupt officials.
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Gaps in perception of India's anti-corruption movement as seen in the U.S. media and by Indian public opinion
04/10/2009
India's Congress government version of events presents it an issue of constitutional sovereignty. Indian public opinion sees it as truly an issue of controlling widespread corruption. Freedom of the press and freedom of assembly are guaranteed in India by the constitution and is exercized continuously since 1947. Corruption at all levels in India in the delivery of public services and in the development of infrastructure has to be experienced to be fully grasped. It acts as a perpetual tax on the middle class and the poor. One has to carefully read the draft of the anticorruption bill drafted by the Congress government, and understand how things function locally today, to realize that it is designed to make little difference in the current state of things. Designed that way because it is a silent but no less explicit intent of the government, political parties, the bureaucracy and interests that have advantages with the existing system, to preserve the status quo. Activist Hazare's bill is designed to give the anti corruption body called a Lokpal the powers it needs to be effective. The prime minister could be exempted but the bureaucracy at all levels and members of parliament and state legislatures if immune to this kind of oversight, would in a developing country with the local conditions of India, render it meaningless. Because this is where the corruption resides. Limits of overreach by the Lokpal come from the body simply acting as a referral system which sends the cases to the judiciary. In doing so constitutional powers are actually vested in the judiciary and the Supreme Court as the final arbiter. India's system of government does not confer sovereignty to parliament- as the Congress government contends- but divides powers between the President, Parliament, and the Judiciary, with a system of checks and balances as in the U.S. Because the current system has delivered a high rate of growth there may be even a tolerance for corruption as a necessary evil as practiced in China. Conditions are differen
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New York Times 12/18/2013
Big Indian States Deal Poll Setback to Congress Party
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04/10/2009
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Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
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Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Behind a Real-Estate Empire, Ties to India's Gandhi Dynasty
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New York Times 08/25/2014
Medvedev's vision for Russia attacking systemic corruption, "primitive" resource based economy, and lack of pluralistic democracy.
01/05/2009
Medvedev looks at Russia today with dismay and positions himself as a reformer.
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Washington Post 05/09/2013
Ex-Aide to Medvedev and Putin Out at Kremlin
New York Times 05/08/2013
Mayor's Rival Contests Moscow Vote Result
Wall Street Journal 09/09/2013
Vladimir Putin returns to Russian presidency weaker than when he left it - The Washington Post
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Medvedev Chooses Critic for an Interview Debut
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2009
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Protests against corruption and calls for government action in India
04/10/2009
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Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
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A Quick Guide to the Lokpal Bills
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2011
India Supreme Court Bars Felons From Legislatures
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New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2009
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