Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption plays an important role in the processes of political change in all states. He suggests that corruption is best understood in Nigeria, as well as in all other nations, as a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. The best solution to combatting Nigerian government corruption, Pierce contends, is not through attempts to prevent officials from diverting public revenue to self-interested ends, but to ask how public ends can be served by accommodating Nigeria's history of patronage as a fundamental political principle.
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This book will be both provocative and informative, and I truly encourage dialogue when the subject is featured. I have amassed an eclectic group of individuals from the business world to provide their own thoughts and opinions on the subject of communication in the current business climate. This book is a series of transcribed interviews with very successful entrepreneurs from the off line and on line world. Each one of these special entrepreneurs plays a unique role in the guidance, development, delivery, and education of the individuals they work with. Their commitment to quality relationship building and business development through effective communication is the pivotal point in business success or failure. Each one of the interviewees has a very special role to play and provide the reader with solutions to common issues facing entrepreneurs and business owners in the current business environment.
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