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56ea97140030b61400a34fbe
Political_corruption
Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the f...
These countries rely on foreign aid for what?
{ "text": [ "health services" ], "answer_start": [ 111 ] }
56ea97140030b61400a34fbf
Political_corruption
Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the f...
In Sub-Saharan African countries, what level of government is corruption especially prevalent at?
{ "text": [ "Local" ], "answer_start": [ 128 ] }
56ea97140030b61400a34fc0
Political_corruption
Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the f...
Which report described this corruption?
{ "text": [ "the 2006 World Bank Report" ], "answer_start": [ 269 ] }
56ea97140030b61400a34fc1
Political_corruption
Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the f...
How many funds did not reach their intended recipients who needed medical attention?
{ "text": [ "about half" ], "answer_start": [ 301 ] }
56ea97ac5a205f1900d6d378
Political_corruption
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
What kind of employees received payments?
{ "text": [ "ghost employees" ], "answer_start": [ 128 ] }
56ea97ac5a205f1900d6d379
Political_corruption
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
Where were drugs siphoned off to?
{ "text": [ "the black market" ], "answer_start": [ 94 ] }
56ea97ac5a205f1900d6d37a
Political_corruption
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
In addition to ghost employees and the black market receiving drugs, what other way was money expended?
{ "text": [ "counterfeit drugs" ], "answer_start": [ 49 ] }
56ea97ac5a205f1900d6d37b
Political_corruption
Instead, the donated money was expended through "counterfeit drugs, siphoning off of drugs to the black market, and payments to ghost employees". Ultimately, there is a sufficient amount of money for health in developing countries, but local corruption denies the wider citizenry the resource they require.
If local corruption did not exist, there would be enough what to help the people in these countries needing medical help?
{ "text": [ "money" ], "answer_start": [ 21 ] }
56ea98980030b61400a34fc7
Political_corruption
Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. While corrupt societies may have formal legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables...
Corruption aids what as far as the environment is concerned?
{ "text": [ "environmental destruction" ], "answer_start": [ 23 ] }
56ea98980030b61400a34fc8
Political_corruption
Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. While corrupt societies may have formal legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables...
Formal legislation cannot be regulated when officials are what?
{ "text": [ "bribed" ], "answer_start": [ 179 ] }
56ea98980030b61400a34fc9
Political_corruption
Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. While corrupt societies may have formal legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables...
Bribes also halt unions, the protection of children in labor, and what?
{ "text": [ "social rights worker protection" ], "answer_start": [ 207 ] }
56ea98980030b61400a34fca
Political_corruption
Corruption facilitates environmental destruction. While corrupt societies may have formal legislation to protect the environment, it cannot be enforced if officials can easily be bribed. The same applies to social rights worker protection, unionization prevention, and child labor. Violation of these laws rights enables...
When these laws are broken, corrupt countries gain what in the international market?
{ "text": [ "illegitimate economic advantage" ], "answer_start": [ 347 ] }
56ea99270030b61400a34fcf
Political_corruption
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur.
Who has stated that apolitical food problems do not exist?
{ "text": [ "Amartya Sen" ], "answer_start": [ 34 ] }
56ea99270030b61400a34fd1
Political_corruption
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur.
What can trigger famine conditions?
{ "text": [ "drought" ], "answer_start": [ 126 ] }
56ea99270030b61400a34fd2
Political_corruption
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has observed that "there is no such thing as an apolitical food problem." While drought and other naturally occurring events may trigger famine conditions, it is government action or inaction that determines its severity, and often even whether or not a famine will occur.
While natural occurrences can cause famine, what determines the severity of it?
{ "text": [ "government action or inaction" ], "answer_start": [ 208 ] }
56ea99c90030b61400a34fd7
Political_corruption
Governments with strong tendencies towards kleptocracy can undermine food security even when harvests are good. Officials often steal state property. In Bihar, India, more than 80% of the subsidized food aid to poor is stolen by corrupt officials. Similarly, food aid is often robbed at gunpoint by governments, criminal...
Even if a harvest is good, food security can be crippled when a government has tendencies toward what?
{ "text": [ "kleptocracy" ], "answer_start": [ 43 ] }
56ea9a965a205f1900d6d381
Political_corruption
The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk. Food aid can be directly and physically diverted from its intended destination, or indirectly through the mani...
Along with food aid, what is most at risk in these countries?
{ "text": [ "construction" ], "answer_start": [ 141 ] }
56ea9a965a205f1900d6d382
Political_corruption
The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk. Food aid can be directly and physically diverted from its intended destination, or indirectly through the mani...
How is food aid usually directly redirected from the people it should go to?
{ "text": [ "physically diverted" ], "answer_start": [ 239 ] }
56ea9a965a205f1900d6d383
Political_corruption
The scale of humanitarian aid to the poor and unstable regions of the world grows, but it is highly vulnerable to corruption, with food aid, construction and other highly valued assistance as the most at risk. Food aid can be directly and physically diverted from its intended destination, or indirectly through the mani...
Food aid can also be indirectly diverted from its intended recipients through the manipulation of what?
{ "text": [ "assessments" ], "answer_start": [ 332 ] }
56ea9b665a205f1900d6d388
Political_corruption
In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, re...
Substandard what is often one way for corruption to enter the construction field?
{ "text": [ "workmanship" ], "answer_start": [ 106 ] }
56ea9b665a205f1900d6d389
Political_corruption
In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, re...
What happens with contracts to aid corruption?
{ "text": [ "kickbacks" ], "answer_start": [ 119 ] }
56ea9b665a205f1900d6d38a
Political_corruption
In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, re...
Recipients of aid are concerned about what?
{ "text": [ "exclusion" ], "answer_start": [ 365 ] }
56ea9b665a205f1900d6d38b
Political_corruption
In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, re...
Those receiving aid may have connections, pay bribes or what?
{ "text": [ "forced to give sexual favors" ], "answer_start": [ 463 ] }
56ea9b665a205f1900d6d38c
Political_corruption
In construction and shelter there are numerous opportunities for diversion and profit through substandard workmanship, kickbacks for contracts and favouritism in the provision of valuable shelter material. Thus while humanitarian aid agencies are usually most concerned about aid being diverted by including too many, re...
Corrupt people may manipulate what to receive more assistance?
{ "text": [ "statistics" ], "answer_start": [ 537 ] }
56ea9d200030b61400a34fe2
Political_corruption
Corruption is not specific to poor, developing, or transition countries. In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers...
These types of corruption can harm what?
{ "text": [ "the public health" ], "answer_start": [ 982 ] }
56ea9d200030b61400a34fe3
Political_corruption
Corruption is not specific to poor, developing, or transition countries. In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers...
Along with institutions, this type of corruption can discredit what?
{ "text": [ "social relationships" ], "answer_start": [ 1056 ] }
56ea9e8c0030b61400a34fe9
Political_corruption
Corruption can also affect the various components of sports activities (referees, players, medical and laboratory staff involved in anti-doping controls, members of national sport federation and international committees deciding about the allocation of contracts and competition places).
Corruption can determine certain things in what kind of activities?
{ "text": [ "sports" ], "answer_start": [ 53 ] }
56ea9e8c0030b61400a34fea
Political_corruption
Corruption can also affect the various components of sports activities (referees, players, medical and laboratory staff involved in anti-doping controls, members of national sport federation and international committees deciding about the allocation of contracts and competition places).
Medical staff can affect what aspect of sports?
{ "text": [ "anti-doping controls" ], "answer_start": [ 132 ] }
56ea9f000030b61400a34fef
Political_corruption
Ultimately, the distinction between public and private sector corruption sometimes appears rather artificial, and national anti-corruption initiatives may need to avoid legal and other loopholes in the coverage of the instruments.
The difference between corruption that is public or private looks like what?
{ "text": [ "artificial" ], "answer_start": [ 98 ] }
56ea9f000030b61400a34ff0
Political_corruption
Ultimately, the distinction between public and private sector corruption sometimes appears rather artificial, and national anti-corruption initiatives may need to avoid legal and other loopholes in the coverage of the instruments.
What needs to stay away from loopholes?
{ "text": [ "national anti-corruption initiatives" ], "answer_start": [ 114 ] }
56ea9f495a205f1900d6d392
Political_corruption
In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let...
What do you call paying government officials to use their position in their office?
{ "text": [ "a bribe" ], "answer_start": [ 40 ] }
56ea9f495a205f1900d6d393
Political_corruption
In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let...
What is the minimum amount of people that can be involved in a bribe?
{ "text": [ "two" ], "answer_start": [ 161 ] }
56ea9f495a205f1900d6d394
Political_corruption
In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let...
What is it called when corruption is part of all public life?
{ "text": [ "culture of corruption" ], "answer_start": [ 432 ] }
56ea9f495a205f1900d6d395
Political_corruption
In the context of political corruption, a bribe may involve a payment given to a government official in exchange of his use of official powers. Bribery requires two participants: one to give the bribe, and one to take it. Either may initiate the corrupt offering; for example, a customs official may demand bribes to let...
Beyond getting money, bribes are also used to cause what to others?
{ "text": [ "harm" ], "answer_start": [ 850 ] }
56ea9f765a205f1900d6d39c
Political_corruption
In recent years,[when?] the international community has made efforts to encourage countries to dissociate active and passive bribery and to incriminate them as separate offences.[citation needed]
What two types of bribery is the international community trying to get prosecuted as separate?
{ "text": [ "active and passive bribery" ], "answer_start": [ 106 ] }
56eaa0445a205f1900d6d39f
Political_corruption
This dissociation aims to make the early steps (offering, promising, requesting an advantage) of a corrupt deal already an offence and, thus, to give a clear signal (from a criminal-policy point-of-view) that bribery is not acceptable.[citation needed] Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery o...
In some countries there is no formal deal but what that makes prosecuting bribes difficult?
{ "text": [ "mutual understanding" ], "answer_start": [ 531 ] }
56eaa0445a205f1900d6d3a1
Political_corruption
This dissociation aims to make the early steps (offering, promising, requesting an advantage) of a corrupt deal already an offence and, thus, to give a clear signal (from a criminal-policy point-of-view) that bribery is not acceptable.[citation needed] Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery o...
A bribe can include requesting, offering, giving or what of favors or money?
{ "text": [ "accepting" ], "answer_start": [ 938 ] }
56eaa0445a205f1900d6d3a2
Political_corruption
This dissociation aims to make the early steps (offering, promising, requesting an advantage) of a corrupt deal already an offence and, thus, to give a clear signal (from a criminal-policy point-of-view) that bribery is not acceptable.[citation needed] Furthermore, such a dissociation makes the prosecution of bribery o...
Bribes can be direct or what?
{ "text": [ "indirect" ], "answer_start": [ 961 ] }
56eaa11d0030b61400a34ff3
Political_corruption
Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the ...
Selling or trading government position influence is called what?
{ "text": [ "influence peddling" ], "answer_start": [ 25 ] }
56eaa11d0030b61400a34ff4
Political_corruption
Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the ...
Selling influence can involve third-parties and this is called what type of relation?
{ "text": [ "tri-lateral" ], "answer_start": [ 216 ] }
56eaa11d0030b61400a34ff5
Political_corruption
Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the ...
In some situations the third-party in an influence peddling crime may be not involved or may be what?
{ "text": [ "an accessory" ], "answer_start": [ 377 ] }
56eaa11d0030b61400a34ff6
Political_corruption
Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the ...
Where lobbying is controlled, what does it provide for consideration to determine improper influencing?
{ "text": [ "distinctive criteria" ], "answer_start": [ 996 ] }
56eaa11d0030b61400a34ff7
Political_corruption
Trading in influence, or influence peddling, refers a person selling his/her influence over the decision making process to benefit a third party (person or institution). The difference with bribery is that this is a tri-lateral relation. From a legal point of view, the role of the third party (who is the target of the ...
What article of the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption contains distinctive criteria to determine improper influence?
{ "text": [ "article 12" ], "answer_start": [ 1107 ] }
56eaa19a0030b61400a34ffd
Political_corruption
Patronage refers to favoring supporters, for example with government employment. This may be legitimate, as when a newly elected government changes the top officials in the administration in order to effectively implement its policy. It can be seen as corruption if this means that incompetent persons, as a payment for ...
Giving government jobs to supporters is called what?
{ "text": [ "Patronage" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaa19a0030b61400a35001
Political_corruption
Patronage refers to favoring supporters, for example with government employment. This may be legitimate, as when a newly elected government changes the top officials in the administration in order to effectively implement its policy. It can be seen as corruption if this means that incompetent persons, as a payment for ...
What country quickly changes most people working in government position when a new government comes into power?
{ "text": [ "Romania" ], "answer_start": [ 785 ] }
56eaa2a85a205f1900d6d3a8
Political_corruption
Favoring relatives (nepotism) or personal friends (cronyism) of an official is a form of illegitimate private gain. This may be combined with bribery, for example demanding that a business should employ a relative of an official controlling regulations affecting the business. The most extreme example is when the entire...
What is it called when relatives are favored over other people?
{ "text": [ "nepotism" ], "answer_start": [ 20 ] }
56eaa2a85a205f1900d6d3a9
Political_corruption
Favoring relatives (nepotism) or personal friends (cronyism) of an official is a form of illegitimate private gain. This may be combined with bribery, for example demanding that a business should employ a relative of an official controlling regulations affecting the business. The most extreme example is when the entire...
What is it called when friends are favored over other people?
{ "text": [ "cronyism" ], "answer_start": [ 51 ] }
56eaa2a85a205f1900d6d3ac
Political_corruption
Favoring relatives (nepotism) or personal friends (cronyism) of an official is a form of illegitimate private gain. This may be combined with bribery, for example demanding that a business should employ a relative of an official controlling regulations affecting the business. The most extreme example is when the entire...
Cronyism is also when people are selected from a closed and exclusive social network, which is called what?
{ "text": [ "old boy network" ], "answer_start": [ 516 ] }
56eaa3195a205f1900d6d3b2
Political_corruption
Seeking to harm enemies becomes corruption when official powers are illegitimately used as means to this end. For example, trumped-up charges are often brought up against journalists or writers who bring up politically sensitive issues, such as a politician's acceptance of bribes.
Corruption also occurs when an official wants to cause some form of harm to who?
{ "text": [ "enemies" ], "answer_start": [ 16 ] }
56eaa3195a205f1900d6d3b3
Political_corruption
Seeking to harm enemies becomes corruption when official powers are illegitimately used as means to this end. For example, trumped-up charges are often brought up against journalists or writers who bring up politically sensitive issues, such as a politician's acceptance of bribes.
False charges can be brought against a journalist who writes about what?
{ "text": [ "politically sensitive issues" ], "answer_start": [ 207 ] }
56eaa5425a205f1900d6d3b6
Political_corruption
Gombeenism refers to an individual who is dishonest and corrupt for the purpose of personal gain, more often through monetary, while, parochialism which is also known as parish pump politics relates to placing local or vanity projects ahead of the national interest.For instance in Irish politics, populist left wing pol...
What is it called when a person is dishonest or corrupt for his own gain?
{ "text": [ "Gombeenism" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaa5425a205f1900d6d3b7
Political_corruption
Gombeenism refers to an individual who is dishonest and corrupt for the purpose of personal gain, more often through monetary, while, parochialism which is also known as parish pump politics relates to placing local or vanity projects ahead of the national interest.For instance in Irish politics, populist left wing pol...
Parish pump politics is also called what?
{ "text": [ "parochialism" ], "answer_start": [ 134 ] }
56eaa5425a205f1900d6d3b9
Political_corruption
Gombeenism refers to an individual who is dishonest and corrupt for the purpose of personal gain, more often through monetary, while, parochialism which is also known as parish pump politics relates to placing local or vanity projects ahead of the national interest.For instance in Irish politics, populist left wing pol...
Which crisis in Ireland involved bribery, cronyism and collusion?
{ "text": [ "Irish Banking crisis" ], "answer_start": [ 476 ] }
56eaa5425a205f1900d6d3ba
Political_corruption
Gombeenism refers to an individual who is dishonest and corrupt for the purpose of personal gain, more often through monetary, while, parochialism which is also known as parish pump politics relates to placing local or vanity projects ahead of the national interest.For instance in Irish politics, populist left wing pol...
Politicians who were at the end of their political careers were offered what kind of position with companies they were involved with politically?
{ "text": [ "senior management or committee position" ], "answer_start": [ 657 ] }
56eaa5f15a205f1900d6d3c0
Political_corruption
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include...
Illegal interference with an election is called what?
{ "text": [ "Electoral fraud" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaa5f15a205f1900d6d3c2
Political_corruption
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include...
Another term for electoral fraud is what?
{ "text": [ "voter fraud" ], "answer_start": [ 276 ] }
56eaa5f15a205f1900d6d3c3
Political_corruption
Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both. Also called voter fraud, the mechanisms involved include...
Illegal voter registration, the miscounting of votes, and what at polls is considered voter fraud?
{ "text": [ "intimidation" ], "answer_start": [ 349 ] }
56eaa6a30030b61400a35007
Political_corruption
Embezzlement is the theft of entrusted funds. It is political when it involves public money taken by a public official for use by anyone not specified by the public. A common type of embezzlement is that of personal use of entrusted government resources; for example, when an official assigns public employees to renovat...
When entrusted funds are stolen, it is called what?
{ "text": [ "Embezzlement" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaa6a30030b61400a35008
Political_corruption
Embezzlement is the theft of entrusted funds. It is political when it involves public money taken by a public official for use by anyone not specified by the public. A common type of embezzlement is that of personal use of entrusted government resources; for example, when an official assigns public employees to renovat...
It is considered political when it involves what kind of money?
{ "text": [ "public" ], "answer_start": [ 79 ] }
56eaa6a30030b61400a35009
Political_corruption
Embezzlement is the theft of entrusted funds. It is political when it involves public money taken by a public official for use by anyone not specified by the public. A common type of embezzlement is that of personal use of entrusted government resources; for example, when an official assigns public employees to renovat...
One form of political embezzlement is when a politician uses government resources for what use?
{ "text": [ "personal" ], "answer_start": [ 207 ] }
56eaa7590030b61400a3500d
Political_corruption
A kickback is an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding. For example, suppose that a politician is in charge of choosing how to spend some public funds. He can give a contract to a company that is not the best bidder, or allocate m...
What is the public official's share called when involved in corrupt bidding?
{ "text": [ "kickback" ], "answer_start": [ 2 ] }
56eaa7590030b61400a3500e
Political_corruption
A kickback is an official's share of misappropriated funds allocated from his or her organization to an organization involved in corrupt bidding. For example, suppose that a politician is in charge of choosing how to spend some public funds. He can give a contract to a company that is not the best bidder, or allocate m...
A contract can be given to someone who is not the best what?
{ "text": [ "bidder" ], "answer_start": [ 299 ] }
56eaa8575a205f1900d6d3c8
Political_corruption
Kickbacks are not limited to government officials; any situation in which people are entrusted to spend funds that do not belong to them are susceptible to this kind of corruption.
What is not limited to just government officials?
{ "text": [ "Kickbacks" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaa9720030b61400a35015
Political_corruption
An unholy alliance is a coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups for ad hoc or hidden gain, generally some influential non-governmental group forming ties with political parties, supplying funding in exchange for the favorable treatment. Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patr...
When groups that are antagonistic to each other form a coalition for hidden gain, it is called what?
{ "text": [ "unholy alliance" ], "answer_start": [ 3 ] }
56eaa9720030b61400a35017
Political_corruption
An unholy alliance is a coalition among seemingly antagonistic groups for ad hoc or hidden gain, generally some influential non-governmental group forming ties with political parties, supplying funding in exchange for the favorable treatment. Like patronage, unholy alliances are not necessarily illegal, but unlike patr...
While not illegal, an unholy alliance can be more dangerous to the public than what?
{ "text": [ "patronage" ], "answer_start": [ 248 ] }
56eaaa215a205f1900d6d3cd
Political_corruption
An illustrative example of official involvement in organized crime can be found from 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, where Huang Jinrong was a police chief in the French concession, while simultaneously being a gang boss and co-operating with Du Yuesheng, the local gang ringleader. The relationship kept the flow of profits f...
When was Jinrong a police chief in this area?
{ "text": [ "1920s and 1930s" ], "answer_start": [ 85 ] }
56eaaa215a205f1900d6d3ce
Political_corruption
An illustrative example of official involvement in organized crime can be found from 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, where Huang Jinrong was a police chief in the French concession, while simultaneously being a gang boss and co-operating with Du Yuesheng, the local gang ringleader. The relationship kept the flow of profits f...
Who was a local gang ringleader in the same area?
{ "text": [ "Du Yuesheng" ], "answer_start": [ 237 ] }
56eaaa215a205f1900d6d3cf
Political_corruption
An illustrative example of official involvement in organized crime can be found from 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, where Huang Jinrong was a police chief in the French concession, while simultaneously being a gang boss and co-operating with Du Yuesheng, the local gang ringleader. The relationship kept the flow of profits f...
In addition to being a police chief, Jinrong was also what?
{ "text": [ "a gang boss" ], "answer_start": [ 203 ] }
56eaaa8f5a205f1900d6d3d4
Political_corruption
The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
What was Noriega's government accused of being?
{ "text": [ "narcokleptocracy" ], "answer_start": [ 76 ] }
56eaaa8f5a205f1900d6d3d5
Political_corruption
The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
What country did Noriega rule?
{ "text": [ "Panama" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }
56eaaa8f5a205f1900d6d3d6
Political_corruption
The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
What country invaded Panama to capture Noriega?
{ "text": [ "United States" ], "answer_start": [ 4 ] }
56eaaa8f5a205f1900d6d3d7
Political_corruption
The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
What is a narcokleptocracy?
{ "text": [ "government profiting on illegal drug trade" ], "answer_start": [ 105 ] }
56eaaa8f5a205f1900d6d3d8
Political_corruption
The United States accused Manuel Noriega's government in Panama of being a "narcokleptocracy", a corrupt government profiting on illegal drug trade. Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
What is Noriega's first name?
{ "text": [ "Manuel" ], "answer_start": [ 26 ] }
56eaaabc0030b61400a3501e
Political_corruption
Thomas Jefferson observed a tendency for "The functionaries of every government ... to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit [for liberty and property] ... without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."
According to Thomas Jefferson, when the media is free and people are literate they are what?
{ "text": [ "safe" ], "answer_start": [ 163 ] }
56eaaaf05a205f1900d6d3de
Political_corruption
Recent research supports Jefferson's claim. Brunetti and Weder found "evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries." They also presented "evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corrupt...
Who found evidence that where the media had freedom there was less political corruption?
{ "text": [ "Brunetti and Weder" ], "answer_start": [ 44 ] }
56eaaaf05a205f1900d6d3df
Political_corruption
Recent research supports Jefferson's claim. Brunetti and Weder found "evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries." They also presented "evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corrupt...
Who discovered that more people reading newspapers resulted in higher political accountability?
{ "text": [ "Adserà, Boix, and Payne" ], "answer_start": [ 326 ] }
56eaaaf05a205f1900d6d3e0
Political_corruption
Recent research supports Jefferson's claim. Brunetti and Weder found "evidence of a significant relationship between more press freedom and less corruption in a large cross-section of countries." They also presented "evidence which suggests that the direction of causation runs from higher press freedom to lower corrupt...
About 100 countries and what else was information gathered from to show that more people reading newspapers had higher political accountability?
{ "text": [ "different states in the US." ], "answer_start": [ 502 ] }
56eaab375a205f1900d6d3e5
Political_corruption
Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lowe...
Who discovered the correlation that congressman who have less local press coverage work less for the people who elected them?
{ "text": [ "Snyder and Strömberg" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
56eaab375a205f1900d6d3e6
Political_corruption
Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lowe...
What newspaper stopped publishing in 2007?
{ "text": [ "Cincinnati Post" ], "answer_start": [ 459 ] }
56eaab375a205f1900d6d3e7
Political_corruption
Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lowe...
Who was most likely to get reelected after the Post shut down?
{ "text": [ "incumbents" ], "answer_start": [ 584 ] }
56eaab375a205f1900d6d3e8
Political_corruption
Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lowe...
Campaign spending and what fell after the Post stopped publishing?
{ "text": [ "voter turnout" ], "answer_start": [ 637 ] }
56eaab6f0030b61400a35022
Political_corruption
An analysis of the evolution of mass media in the US and Europe since World War II noted mixed results from the growth of the Internet: "The digital revolution has been good for freedom of expression [and] information [but] has had mixed effects on freedom of the press": It has disrupted traditional sources of funding,...
What did the analysis show mixed results for?
{ "text": [ "growth of the Internet" ], "answer_start": [ 112 ] }
56eaab6f0030b61400a35023
Political_corruption
An analysis of the evolution of mass media in the US and Europe since World War II noted mixed results from the growth of the Internet: "The digital revolution has been good for freedom of expression [and] information [but] has had mixed effects on freedom of the press": It has disrupted traditional sources of funding,...
What was disrupted by Internet growth for the press?
{ "text": [ "traditional sources of funding" ], "answer_start": [ 289 ] }
56eaab6f0030b61400a35024
Political_corruption
An analysis of the evolution of mass media in the US and Europe since World War II noted mixed results from the growth of the Internet: "The digital revolution has been good for freedom of expression [and] information [but] has had mixed effects on freedom of the press": It has disrupted traditional sources of funding,...
How much has new types of Internet journalism replaced what has been lost in the press?
{ "text": [ "a tiny fraction" ], "answer_start": [ 377 ] }
56eaac850030b61400a35029
Political_corruption
Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual...
How many measures does Transparency International publish right now?
{ "text": [ "three" ], "answer_start": [ 290 ] }
56eaac850030b61400a3502a
Political_corruption
Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual...
What is the measure that Transparency International publishes that looks at the willingness of a foreign company to pay a bribe?
{ "text": [ "Bribe Payers Index" ], "answer_start": [ 556 ] }
56eaac850030b61400a3502b
Political_corruption
Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual...
What is the measure that it publishes that involves polling to determine the public's take on how corrupt various countries are?
{ "text": [ "CPI" ], "answer_start": [ 82 ] }
56eaac850030b61400a3502c
Political_corruption
Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual...
When was the CPI first released?
{ "text": [ "1995" ], "answer_start": [ 105 ] }
56eaac850030b61400a3502d
Political_corruption
Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annual...
Which index studies the correlation of corruption and military in a country?
{ "text": [ "Government Defence Anti-corruption Index" ], "answer_start": [ 836 ] }
56eaadd55a205f1900d6d3ee
Political_corruption
The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is define...
How many firms throughout the world have been surveyed by the World Bank in regards to its corruption study?
{ "text": [ "over 100,000" ], "answer_start": [ 87 ] }
56eaadd55a205f1900d6d3ef
Political_corruption
The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is define...
How many dimensions of governance are measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators?
{ "text": [ "six" ], "answer_start": [ 202 ] }
56eaadd55a205f1900d6d3f0
Political_corruption
The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is define...
One of the dimensions is the extent to which power is exercised for personal gain, which is called what?
{ "text": [ "Control of Corruption" ], "answer_start": [ 282 ] }
56eaadd55a205f1900d6d3f1
Political_corruption
The World Bank collects a range of data on corruption, including survey responses from over 100,000 firms worldwide and a set of indicators of governance and institutional quality. Moreover, one of the six dimensions of governance measured by the Worldwide Governance Indicators is Control of Corruption, which is define...
Which organization is most notable for adopting the global coverage of these studies?
{ "text": [ "Millennium Challenge Corporation" ], "answer_start": [ 906 ] }
56eaaf2b5a205f1900d6d3f6
Political_corruption
A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesse...
A second set of corruption metrics has been compiled by Global Integrity and what other organization?
{ "text": [ "International Budget Partnership" ], "answer_start": [ 590 ] }
56eaaf2b5a205f1900d6d3f7
Political_corruption
A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesse...
When was the Global Integrity Index first published?
{ "text": [ "2004" ], "answer_start": [ 411 ] }
56eaaf2b5a205f1900d6d3f8
Political_corruption
A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesse...
Both companies no longer use what means of collecting of data?
{ "text": [ "public surveys" ], "answer_start": [ 642 ] }
56eaaf2b5a205f1900d6d3f9
Political_corruption
A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesse...
Instead of public surveys, the organizations use what to study corruption?
{ "text": [ "in-country experts" ], "answer_start": [ 674 ] }
56eaaf7d5a205f1900d6d400
Political_corruption
Typical second wave corruption metrics do not offer the worldwide coverage found in first wave projects, and instead focus on localizing information gathered to specific problems and creating deep, "unpackable"[clarification needed] content that matches quantitative and qualitative data.
The second wave of metrics focuses on what level of corruption?
{ "text": [ "local" ], "answer_start": [ 126 ] }
56eaaf7d5a205f1900d6d401
Political_corruption
Typical second wave corruption metrics do not offer the worldwide coverage found in first wave projects, and instead focus on localizing information gathered to specific problems and creating deep, "unpackable"[clarification needed] content that matches quantitative and qualitative data.
Unlike the first wave, the second wave does not offer what type of coverage?
{ "text": [ "worldwide" ], "answer_start": [ 56 ] }
56eab0195a205f1900d6d404
Political_corruption
Alternative approaches, such as the British aid agency's Drivers of Change research, skips numbers and promotes understanding corruption via political economy analysis of who controls power in a given society.
What is the British aid agency's research called?
{ "text": [ "Drivers of Change" ], "answer_start": [ 57 ] }