« I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. »
Un "groupe cinquième" correspond à une tranche de 20% de l'échantillon: le premier groupe représente les 20% de pays les plus interventionnistes et le cinquième groupe représente les 20% de pays les moins interventionnistes.
Explication de Dan Mitchell:
Dans une société, plus un gouvernement distribue de permis et d’autorisations, plus les gens auront un incitatif à recourir aux pots-de-vin pour obtenir un permis ou une autorisation.
Dans une société, plus un gouvernement distribue de contrats, plus les gens auront un incitatif à recourir aux pots-de-vin pour obtenir un contrat.
Dans une société, plus un gouvernement distribue de subventions, plus les gens auront un incitatif à recourir aux pots-de-vin pour obtenir une subvention.
Dans une société, plus l’État est gros et omniprésent, plus il y a de possibilités de corruption.
President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.
“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.
Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture. Among other things, the Bush administration memos revealed that two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to a form of near-drowning known as waterboarding a total of 266 times.
Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.