{"id":6396,"date":"2012-10-19T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:34:05","slug":"italian-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/italian-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101912_0349_ItalianCorr1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a short, sharp, and effective article, Max Fisher explored the state of corruption in Italy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italy&#8217;s government loses \u20ac60 billion every year due to corruption.<\/li>\n<li>If Italy&#8217;s corruption were a separate country, it would be the 76<sup>th<\/sup> largest economy in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Italy also loses $340 billion due to a culture of tax evasion every year. This is equivalent to all of Austria&#8217;s GDP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the rest of the numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2012\/10\/18\/if-italian-corruption-were-its-own-country-it-would-be-the-worlds-76th-largest-economy\/?wprss=rss_blogpost&amp;tid=pp_widget\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2012\/10\/18\/if-italian-corruption-were-its-own-country-it-would-be-the-worlds-76th-largest-economy\/?wprss=rss_blogpost&amp;tid=pp_widget\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/10\/italy-estimates-of-the-day.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a short, sharp, and effective article, Max Fisher explored the state of corruption in Italy: Italy&#8217;s government loses \u20ac60 billion every year due to corruption. If Italy&#8217;s corruption were a separate country, it would be the 76th largest economy in the world. Italy also loses $340 billion due to a culture of tax evasion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101912_0349_ItalianCorr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}