Measuring corruption
It's even worse than you thought
NOTHING shocks Angolans. “It's normal,” said one, referring to the disappearance of $4.3 billion from state coffers in the past five years. But someone at the International Monetary Fund was clearly a little bit shocked, because an internal report making this and other detailed allegations, which was not supposed to be released without the permission of the Angolan government, was recently leaked.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Measuring corruption”
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