This extrapolates to about $2.5 billion worth of baksheesh nationally every year: roughly as large as Afghanistan's opium economy, and a quarter of licit economic output. For most Afghans ...

WHEN Siemens, Europe's biggest engineering firm, adopted the slogan “be inspired” in the mid-1990s, bribery was not what it had in mind. But no one can accuse its managers of lacking ...

In the climate of the global financial crisis, “baksheesh” (an Arabic term used to describe tipping), to which Egyptians are accustomed, has also been affected and has begun to decline, ...

Here you will learn your first word of Iraqi Arabic: baksheesh. Elsewhere in the Third World, this word means “bribe,” but in Iraq it seems to mean “welcome” or “happy to see you ...

Add another name to the list of countries where GlaxoSmithKline is now probing allegations that staffers paid bribes to win business. The drug maker is now investigating claims in an e-mail ...

Of course, bribes - the Afghans use the old Persian word "baksheesh" - aren't reported, so they don't count toward the actual gross domestic product. Nor, for that matter, does the opium trade ...

The court scoured the Internet and dictionaries to find the exact meaning of the Persian word ‘Baksheesh’. A trial court had earlier held the gift deed null and void and not binding.

Translation: Anything (harmful) that damages (only) the feathers is baksheesh (a small tip or sacrifice). Meaning: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The reference to feathers, or reesh ...

On June 30, more than 150 people came to the Hello/Goodbye party at St. Helena’s iconic Baksheesh fair trade store at 1327 Main St. as it was transitioned to a new owner and the new name of ...