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In the end, kilometres of concrete walls, reams of high-voltage wires and 24-hour security patrols were not enough to keep South African model Reeva Steenkamp safe from harm. Inside one of the countless walled suburban compounds dotting South Africa, Steenkamp was shot dead last week at the luxury home of her boyfriend, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius. Many experts believe these ubiquitous South African communities, known as security villages, in fact give residents a false sense of security from the high violent crime rates that plague the country. People are seeking to create a lifestyle that is out of touch with what contemporary urban living actually is, said Erna Van Wyk, a psychologist at the University of Witwatersrand who specializes in traumatic stress. Van Wyk s research shows that security village residents often band tog
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A few hundred baht here, a few thousand rupees there... a major UN report released on Thursday said petty corruption is a massive drain on Asian economic growth and hits the poor hardest. HT Image Known by euphemisms such as tea money and ci
af1 garette money , the sort of bribes many Asians pay as a matter of course is worsening child mortality rates and perpetuating poverty across the region, the report said. Petty corruption is a misnomer, said Anuradha Rajivan, who led the team that compiled the UN Development Programmes report, titled Tackling Corruption, Transforming Lives . Dollar amounts may be relatively small but the demands are incessant, the number of people affected is enormous and the share of poor peoples income diverted to corruption is high. She said too much attention focused on the big fish in anti-corruption drives and not on the low-level vice that affects billions of Asians daily. Hauling the rich and powerful before the courts may grab headlines but the poor will benefit m
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yeezy eryday lives, she said in a statement accompanying the report. UNDP assistant secretary-general Olav Kjorven, launching the report in Jakarta alongside Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said it was the poor who paid the price for corruption. Development is ultimately about expanding the choices that people have to lead the lives that they value, he said in a speech. Corruption strangl