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fromwww.aljazeera.com
18 hours ago

Elite capture': How Pakistan is losing 6 percent of its GDP to corruption

A new assessment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded that corruption in Pakistan is behind an economic crisis driven by state capture where public policy is manipulated to benefit a narrow circle of political and business elites. The Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA), finalised in November 2025, presents a grim picture of a system marked by dysfunctional institutions that are unable to enforce the rule of law or safeguard public resources.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Forget petty bribes, state capture' is corruption so deep it is shaping the rules of democracy itself | Kenneth Mohammed

Global youth uprisings are challenging entrenched state capture, toppling governments and exposing elites who have transformed public institutions into mechanisms for private enrichment.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

The first honest American president

Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment. Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump's innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime's corruption its open profiteering, its use of the state as an instrument of vengeance and self-enrichment as a perversion of American democracy, the truth is more unsettling: it's a mirror.
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