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We only ranked high when it comes to poverty, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political activism.
It's not simply corruption and waste that you create; you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging tendencies of foreigners on short tours with their own priorities.
Last year, the district attorney whose office prosecuted McKinley's case was convicted of unrelated corruption charges.
So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.
This is a story about the fact that people in Africa are no longer willing to tolerate corruption from their leaders.
The results are showing: independent monitoring by the World Bank and other organizations show that in many instances the trend is downwards in terms of corruption, and governance is improving.
That is that people talk about corruption, corruption.
Is that not corruption?
Shivdutt's father's death and a want for his property led to this corruption.
The Cheetah Generation is a new breed of Africans who brook no nonsense about corruption.
Corruption alone costs Africa 148 billion dollars a year.
But then, a lot of people think there are things that should have been in the original package that weren't agreed back then that should now be included, like sustainable development targets, natural resource governance targets, access to opportunity, to knowledge, equity, fighting corruption.
Creating our own program to solve problems, like fighting corruption, building institutions, stabilizing the micro economy.
So he can't prevent it, his own citizens to post critical videos against his corruption.
Well, because it gives them good, paying jobs, or, in many African countries, unofficial opportunities to profit from corruption.
Beyond that, what I found most fascinating was the level of endemic corruption that I saw across all different countries, and particularly centered around the heart of power, around public officials who were embezzling the public's money for their own personal enrichment, and allowed to do that because of official secrecy.
My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened.
Bihar represents the challenge of development: abject poverty surrounded by corruption.
So for instance, when it was reported on this website that 800 students were at risk because school repairs had stalled due to corruption, the Department of Education in the Philippines took swift action.
It was very late at night, and at age 80, he was typing a 70-page public interest litigation against corruption in a road project.
He fought till the end, increasingly passionate that to combat corruption and poverty, not only did government officials need to be honest, but citizens needed to join together to make their voices heard.
However, Gaddafi left behind a heavy burden, a legacy of tyranny, corruption and seeds of diversions.
When I told the World Bank directors that I wanted them to finance a project to build a model reception hall for citizens precisely in order to fight endemic daily corruption, they did not understand me.
Okay, this morning I'm speaking on the question of corruption.
But we need to understand what we understand about corruption, and we need to understand that we have been miseducated about it, and we have to admit that.
When we get together with friends and family and we discuss crime in our country, crime in Belmont or crime in Diego or crime in Marabella, nobody's speaking about corruption.
When the Commissioner of Police comes on TV to talk about crime, he isn't speaking about corruption.
And we know for sure when the Minister of National Security is speaking about crime, he's not talking about corruption either.
Public and private corruption is a reality.
As somebody who comes from the private sector, I can tell you there's a massive amount of corruption in the private sector that has nothing to do with government.
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