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State Capture
Definition
A situation where powerful individuals, institutions, companies or groups within or outside
a country use corruption to shape a nation’s policies, legal environment and economy to
benefit their own private interests. 71
Example in practice
Since the 1990s, multinational corporations have allegedly pressured and bribed key
politicians in the Solomon Islands to create a favourable operating environment for logging
and to weaken national-level timber management, successfully gaining advantages such as
decreasing export taxes, postponing the logging export ban and preventing moves to
strengthen government oversight of foreign-controlled operations. 72
Relevant links
—— Global Witness.
www.globalwitness.org/
—— World Bank: State Capture and Influence.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTWBIGOVANTCOR/0,,contentMD
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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL PLAIN LANGUAGE GUIDE - JULY 2009