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Burgess COMMENTARY I am grateful to Afra Raymond for this presentation. The problem of corruption is huge, but mostly people are content to allow it to go on and not 'rock the boat'. My own career was compromised when I started to bump into grand corruption and then was faced with the reality that many in high places were doing very well from the system and had no intention of changing the way things were. There were multiple occasions when I was told that 'I would go home in a box' unless I basically 'shut up' and toe the line. John Perkins and 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' describes the problem. So have others. The challenge is to change things so that corruption gets stopped in its tracks ... but anyone that gets serious about 'whistle blowing' is at risk from the authorities. Peter Burgess |
Afra Raymond from Trinidad and Tobago talking at a TEDx event about corruption in society
Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil. But in 1982, a shocking fact was revealed -- that 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for development had been wasted or stolen. This has haunted Afra Raymond for 30 years. Shining a flashlight on a continued history of government corruption, Raymond gives us a reframing of financial crime. (Filmed at TEDxPortofSpain.) |
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The text being discussed is available at http://www.ted.com/talks/afra_raymond_three_myths_about_corruption.html |
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