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An economist once sent engineers to drill core samples out of newly built village roads in Indonesia. The asphalt told a story no official report would: about a quarter of the money paid for those roads had gone somewhere else. Corruption hides, but it leaves traces, and learning to read them is half of understanding it.
You will meet a party boss who called his profits honest, a colony that cleaned up its police within a decade, and a crusading prosecution that ended up on trial itself. You will also weigh harder questions, such as whether campaign money and lobbying are corruption or free speech, and why people who hate bribery keep paying. Afterward, a scandal, a reform promise or a country ranking will prompt the questions that separate real accountability from theater.
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