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From what I understood in India corruption is kind of societal. Government officials take a sort of 'cut' for doing things (this can be seen in France, however
by electromagnetic 16y ago
From what I understood in India corruption is kind of societal. Government officials take a sort of 'cut' for doing things (this can be seen in France, however from what I understand in France it gets things done now rather than getting it done whenever), otherwise you're screwed.
From what I got in Russia the cut is an all level corruption, often with organized crime involved taking their own cuts.
Ex: Say in India you have to pay a bribe for a business license, in Russia you'd have to pay a bribe for a business license and then you have to pay for protection from the mob, then you likely have to pay protection from the crooked cops.
At least, this is how it's always been represented to me.
- iampims 16y agoI don't know where you got the idea — that corruption in France is significant — from. Care to elaborate?
- CaptainZapp 16y agoTransparency International (an NGO fighting corruption) rates France at 26th, India at 84th and Russia at 146th. The league table can be found here : http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/... . It doesn't seem that France is overly corrupt (if maybe overly bureaucratic) and I'd like to second your question for clarification.
- iampims 16y agoThanks for the link. There is no doubt that France is overly bureaucratic — but having lived there for almost 25 years, I've only heard about a handful of corruption cases.
- electromagnetic 16y agoThe corruption I've seen isn't actual corruption as it isn't inhibiting the proper processes, however a lot of the government officials seem to be prone to 'doing favors' in receipt of something. I've seen this in the UK and Canada, but France seems to be more accepting of it.