Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhat’s especially striking is to look at the two maps together: Government corruption is correlated with economic oppression. This is not really surprising, but it seems to tell us everything we need to know about wealth and poverty: The closer a given country is to being a slave-state, the closer to starvation the people of that country will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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