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Atlantic, The, April, 2003
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Foreign Affairs Coffingate Documents from Transparency International, an organization dedicated to combating corruption across the world, are rarely uplifting but almost never dull, since they are essentially catalogues of the graft, venality, and chicanery to which human beings are prone, and to which they fall victim.
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Transparency International's latest annual report, just published, is full of such material. Just two examples, from India: In Bangalore 70 percent of mothers at a public maternity hospital reported having to bribe orderlies in order to see their newborns. (To see a baby son costs 300 rupees, or about $6.00; to see a daughter costs only 200 rupees.) And the Indian Defense Ministry became mired in "Coffingate" after ministry officials authorized payments of $2,500 each for coffins that cost just $172. Several Latin American countries have tried hiring female traffic police, on the theory (which has good evidence to support it) that women are ...
