By Caitlin Rother
ISBN-10: 0786030577
ISBN-13: 9780786030576
Praise for Caitlin Rother and her true-life thrillers
"Will maintain you at the fringe of your seat."--Aphrodite Jones
"An fascinating page-turner."--M. William Phelps
Chelsea King used to be a well-liked highschool senior, a very good achiever made up our minds to make a distinction. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois enjoyed books and poured her center into the animals she cared for. valuable through their households and pals, either ladies disappeared in San Diego County, simply 8 miles and three hundred and sixty five days aside. The community's determined seek led specialists to John Albert Gardner, a brutal predator hiding in simple sight. Now Pulitzer-nominated writer Caitlin Rother offers an incisive, heartbreaking true-life mystery that touches our inner most fears.
"Rother is without doubt one of the most sensible storytellers in actual crime." --Steve Jackson
Includes dramatic photos
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Establishing mechanisms for good governance is a necessary step towards reducing corruption and sustaining some of the positive gains for political, socio-economic development. Ultimately, governments determine the allocation of societies’ resources (including oil) via mechanisms of governance. 10 shows that mechanisms that ensure voice and accountability, rule of law and regulatory quality are particularly weak amongst the Islamic oil exporters, with the exception of political stability. On voice and accountability, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia rank amongst the lowest of the 18 countries in our study in terms of the extent to which their citizens are able to engage in the political process.
Moreover, it has been clearly acknowledged that corruption and corrupt practices are un-Islamic and are specifically condemned in Islam. For example, according to one of the Prophet’s sayings: ‘Damned is the bribe-giver (or “corrupter”), the bribe-taker (or “corrupted”) and he who goes between them’, illustrating the severity with which bribery and corruption are viewed. Islam provides guidance on the basic principles of ethical business practices – or a code of ethics. According to that code, engaging in business and commerce is considered a lofty aim, contingent on this not leading to unjust accumulation of wealth (including through bribery, corruption, and so on) to any of the actors, public or private, involved.
10 shows that mechanisms that ensure voice and accountability, rule of law and regulatory quality are particularly weak amongst the Islamic oil exporters, with the exception of political stability. On voice and accountability, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia rank amongst the lowest of the 18 countries in our study in terms of the extent to which their citizens are able to engage in the political process. It should be noted that in comparison to most other countries in our study, there is little evidence that much progress has occurred over the last decade in the Islamic oilexporting countries adequately to establish modalities essential for good governance.