Make poverty history by tackling corruption - Professor of Economics

[brendan]

http://www.cis.org.au/issue_analysis/IA67/ia67.pdf

Wolfgang Kasper is emeritus Professor of Economics at The University of New South Wales.

[Collin Li]

Yes, this is one issue that people from all sides of the political arena could agree on.

[brendan]

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/03/corruption-as-impediment-to-economic.html

[Eriny]

Yeah, corruption is probably what made these countries impoverished in the first place. I remember one of my teachers saying that in one country, all the farms were (successfully) worked by people of a particular race and then the president or whoever kicked out the farmers and put in unskilled people who didn't know what they were doing of a different race. I wish I could be less vague as to which country this was.

[brendan]

Yeah, corruption is probably what made these countries impoverished in the first place. I remember one of my teachers saying that in one country, all the farms were (successfully) worked by people of a particular race and then the president or whoever kicked out the farmers and put in unskilled people who didn't know what they were doing of a different race. I wish I could be less vague as to which country this was.

zimbabwe. if not that im pretty sure it was an african country. and the first race was white and the second race was african.