When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (with several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money — to some surprisingly familiar faces. Interactive transcriptInteractive transcript Footnotes Speaker’s footnotes Reading list Speaker’s reading list Charmian Gooch Anti-corruption activist Charmian Gooch is the 2014 TED Prize winner. At Global Witness, she exposes how a global architecture of corruption is woven into the extraction and exploitation of natural resources. Full bio Similar topics #Business #Corruption #Energy #Global issuesУ #ted #cheralexav #alexcher
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