Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’
Mon Nov 23, 2009 15:55 UTC |
“If you have a lot of what people want and can’t get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough”. – Lucky Luciano
It’s a simple enough concept, and one that helped make the father of modern organised crime in the United States cited above ‘one of the most influential builders and titans [Read more...]
Tags: Book Review, Colombia, Corruption, drugs, Dubai, Mafia, McMafia, McRib, Misha Glenny, Organised Crime, Organized Crime, Western Balkans
Posted in: Book Review, General, Political Risk
Mon Jul 6, 2009 16:35 UTC |
The unsurprising landslide victory of the opposition GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) party in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections on Sunday (July 5) could prove to be the sea-change which many ordinary Bulgarians have been desperately waiting for. In the aftermath of the elections, I believe that the overwhelming support for the three-year old centre-right [Read more...]
Tags: Bulgaria, Bulgarian Socialist Party, convergence, Corruption, election, EU funds, GERB, Parliamentary Election
Posted in: Emerging Europe, General, Political Risk
Mon May 11, 2009 14:30 UTC |
At the end of April, Risk Watchdog went to the ‘Invest Iraq’ conference in London. It was attended by several hundred representatives from a broad range of companies, and a large chunk of the Iraqi government, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (who gave the keynote speech), was there. The delegates were very ‘on message’ and [Read more...]
Tags: Corruption, investment, Iraq
Posted in: Geopolitics, Middle East, Political Risk