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The economy of influence

Posted on November 21, 2011

 

In India corruption is often equated with bribery. But corruption also has a humble and routine existence—in the transactional malfeasance of everyday Indian life and the buying and selling of resources. We do possess the legal instruments and agencies needed to clip such bribery.  However, these institutions fail to keep in check these practices reflecting a more deep-set type of corruption…