By Thomas J. Gradel, Dick Simpson
Public money spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes crammed with embezzled money. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' tradition of "Where's mine?" and the general public apathy it engenders has made our country and native politics a disgrace.
In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take target at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers via a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to demonstrate how generations of chicanery have undermined religion in, and wish for, sincere govt. From there, they lay out the way to enforce institutional reforms that supply responsibility and get rid of the favoritism, sweetheart bargains, and conflicts of curiosity corroding our civic life.
Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to remodel our politics from a pay-to-play–driven market into what it may be: an tool of public stable.
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In another example, the 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) estimated that by 2030, economic and population growth would yield global water requirements that exceed the accessible reliable supply by 40%. Efficiency improvements on the scale achieved by the agriculture and industry sectors between 1990 and 2004 might close 20% of this gap, and supply augmentation via new infrastructure might close a further 20%. However, a large gap remains, and the uneven distribution of water resources across countries suggests that some areas of the world will suffer extreme water shortages.
3%. Given the growth of the Chinese economy during this period, this increase further highlights the extremely strong growth of its business expenditures on R&D. The expenditure on R&D performed by the higher education sector (HERD) forms a much smaller component of overall R&D spending across OECD countries. Total OECD spending in this area reached USD 157 billion in 2008 (current PPP), with Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States spending the largest absolute amounts. Growth was more volatile from year to year in HERD than in GERD or BERD, although it remained positive for the OECD as a whole.
78; see also Chapter 2 of this publication). 8 also shows the share of business-funded R&D in the higher education and government sectors. 5% in 2008. Denmark had the lowest share of business financing in these sectors, at 2% in 2008, while Turkey had the highest, at just over 15%. There is no one “right” mix of funding sources for R&D, with the history, industrial structure and institutional frameworks in each country influencing financing arrangements. There is some suggestion that privately funded R&D yields better results than publicly funded R&D, in terms of productivity and return on investment.