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"A recent finding by the civil service of Yemen found that up to 30,000 of its employees (out of 473,000) were ‘ghost workers’ who never showed up for work, or ‘double dippers’ who were on more than one payroll...The Ministry of Education (MoE) is reported to be one of the top ministries in the employment of ‘ghost workers.’ Often, teachers and administrators who are on the MoE payroll simply do not ever report to work while collecting salaries." (from USAID's Corruption Assessment of Yemen) yes, this week I am learning about Yemen...

since i'm learning new things every day at my new internship at Crown Agents USA , I figured i'll start posting some of the interesting things I discover. from mcc.gov: Paraguay has an estimated 300,000 registered taxpayers, of whom only 1,500 actually paid taxes in 2004. which helps me understand why Brazilians tend to say that if something is cheap or poor quality, it must be from Paraguay....

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