<And how on earth am I going to explain this away to the folks at work?>
Tell them "Our-literally millions- Con-Artists could teach a thing or two to Your Enron,Worldcomm..."
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From: "Ram Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: assam@assamnet.org
Subject: Re: [Assam] From ToI/India world leader in greasing palms
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:27:35 -0500
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:What did I tell you :-)?
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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 NGOç¼ï¿½s 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 ç¼" or most willing to give ç¼"
followed by China and Russia.
With Brazil also ranking pretty low as the
eighth biggest bribe giver, the BRIC nations ç¼"
the foursome of Brazil, Russia, India and China
ç¼" predicted to become among the biggest
economies in the world by 2050 ç¼" 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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