Politics and Development

Question 1

What is corruption?

Answer 1

Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.
- Corruption destroys trust
- weakerrs democracy
- impede development
- contributes with inequality
- poverty
- social division
- environmental crisis

Question 2

Economics benefits of combating corruption and the TI corruption index

Answer 2

Combating corruption helps less money being stolen

• TI score countries on how corrupt their public sector are
• Corruption perception index sends messages and goverments take notice and act
  Peru rank 101/198
  36/100

Question 3

Understand the term whistleblower

Answer 3

Whistleblower:
A person, employee, who revels information of a private or public organization
Ex: Edward Snowden
revealed secret information from the NASA

Question 4

Wikileaks

Answer 4

• Online library of secret government documents located from anonymous sources
• not affiliated with wikipedia
• secure and anonymous

Question 5

The Arab Spring

Answer 5

The Arab spring is a movement that spread in the middle East, aims to end authoritian rule and corruption, while trying to gain democracy and economic opportunity.

Question 6

How did the Arab spring began

Answer 6

On december 2010 a Tunisian vendedor was approached by Tunisia authorities about his unlisenced cart. He offered to pay them back but instead his vegetables were confiscated and he was public humiliated by the police. After this the vendedor stood in front of a goverment office setting himself in fire and killing himself.
This desperate called for action helped spark a revolutionary uprising called the Arab spring.

Question 7

How many people have died in Siria because of the terrorism

Answer 7

have a million people: 500,000

Question 8

What does the Arab spring led to?

Answer 8

Political instability and economic stagnation and a massive refugee crisis.

Question 9

What countries were involved in the Arab spring

Answer 9

middle eats and west africa.
- Tunisa
- Algeria
- Jordan
- Oman
- Egypt
- Syria
- Yemen
- Iraq
- Libya
- Sudan
- Morroco

Question 10

Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto’s theory on the Arab Spring. How does it relate to what we studied on the informal economy before?

Answer 10

Economist Hernando de Soto suggests that the Arab Spring was not a political protest but a desire among the excluded society for the economic opportunity. Countries like Egypt and Algeria have a longer and higher bureaucratic and closed economies which
makes small entrepreneurs hard to open legal businesses and are vulnerable to corruption. Soto theory states that if Africa really wants to transform the Arab world, countries like the UK should make property rights more easy to follow and the rule of law and condition of their aid programmes.

• Arab spring was not a political protest
• It was a called for action of the excluded society for an economic opportunity
• Countries like Egypt have a longer and bureaucratic legal paper work
• which makes entrepreneurs hard to open businesses
• vulnerable to corruption
• Soto theory: property rights should be more easy to follow and effective