{"id":147344,"date":"2025-06-26T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147344"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:02:42","slug":"follow-the-money-why-the-worlds-poorest-countries-stay-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147344","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Money: Why the World&#8217;s Poorest Countries Stay Poor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GDYVFJzD8c0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A film about corruption in high places and those who enable it. Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) are people who hold a public function and as a result present higher risks of being involved in bribery or corruption. Offshore leaks have revealed repeatedly that PEPs use British finance and British offshore jurisdictions to launder their wealth, hide their wealth and re-invest that wealth back into the global financial system. London is the place where they buy property, where they take legal action against their critics and where they live when they fall from grace. But what happens when a developing country fights back and attempts to get Britain to return the money that it claims has been stolen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film about corruption in high places and those who enable it. Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) are people who hold a public function and as a result present higher risks of being involved in bribery or corruption. Offshore leaks have revealed repeatedly that PEPs use British finance and British offshore jurisdictions to launder their wealth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[1449,717,1057,4165],"class_list":["post-147344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-documentary","tag-economy","tag-money","tag-political-corruption"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/follow-the-money-why-the-worlds.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":147942,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147942","url_meta":{"origin":147344,"position":0},"title":"The Kiosks of Failure: Greece, Europe, and the Economics of Corruption","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"27\/08\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"They were supposed to be shrines of renewal. 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