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Perhaps it is because people interested in combating corruption in resource-rich countries are of impeccable ethics themselves, but it took only the smallest of "bribes" -- cookies, but no lunch -- to draw a packed house in freezing weather to CGD today to discuss the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
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