SGS, one of a number offering services to countries that do not trust their own officials, is on the scene.

ECONOMIST: Western man��s burden

SGS, an inspection firm, and Helveta, a software firm, to set up a system to track all of Liberia's timber.

ECONOMIST: Forestry

Among them is SGS, a Geneva firm, one of whose former executives was indicted by a Swiss court in an alleged bribery scheme involving Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto (the case was later dropped).

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