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Although transition was bound to be painful, Russia's epidemic of corruption caused more political damage than the economic side effects of reform.
Corruption blights reform throughout the ex-communist world.
When civil society -- the press, private business, religious and community groups -- is weak, corruption can go unchecked.
Russian corruption goes beyond levels experienced elsewhere, and for three reasons:The Communist Party, where many leaders began their careers, was a breeding ground for corruption in the form of privileges (dachas, private hospitals, restaurants, vacation homes, scarce consumer goods) reserved for communist leaders.
Legal privatizations, mainly through the voucher program, were skillful and amazingly free of corruption.
Western governments and international institutions were complacent in the face of Russian corruption.
No precise accounting of this vast corruption is possible.
Foreign trade was a fertile area of corruption, too.
Another channel of corruption involved cheap loans from Russia's central bank to new private banks.
Many societies survive periods of systemic corruption without a social explosion; to do so they need a growing economy to mute public grievances.
In addition to the logistical challenge of reaching every child in Africa’s most populated country, the Nigerian polio-eradication campaign has had to overcome security issues, opposition by religious fundamentalists, and rampant corruption.
Moon, who was elected to boost jobs and curb corruption, campaigned on sweeping away his predecessor’s policies, including her hardline approach toward North Korea.
Meanwhile, the government’s policies to tackle corruption, overcapacity, excess local-government debt, and pollution have put downward pressure on investment, consumption, and the government’s capacity to deliver its promised growth rate.
Unlike EU members admitted during earlier rounds of enlargement, the Central Europeans suffer from widespread corruption, political nepotism, fragile political parties with unclear identities, and weak civil societies.
Lack of accountability has both encouraged corruption and fed perceptions that abuse remains unpunished.
None of them can currently be found in Bolivia, which means that the money concentrated in the state will surely be redistributed by patrimonial and clientelistic means, siphoned off by corruption, and subjected to social pressures of all sorts.
On the other hand, in Brazil, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that has toppled one president and could topple another, investors recognize that the country’s institutions are working – albeit in their own cumbersome way – and they have priced risks accordingly.
In Southeast Asia, Hong Kong benefits, first and foremost, from a business culture that is unencumbered by either red tape or corruption.
After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.
The original impetus for the legalization of the sex industry in New South Wales was an inquiry into police corruption that showed that the sex industry was a major source of police bribes.
But, to achieve this, he must encourage reforms that would lead to a strong middle class, which, as can already be seen in Russia’s big cities, opposes Putin’s clientilist “guided democracy” and the massive corruption that comes with it.
With policymaking fully nontransparent and reduced to a very closed circle, and implementation delegated to an unaccountable bureaucracy, the inevitable result of Putin’s political model was pervasive corruption.
But that proposal fell apart, and, amid pressure from corruption scandals and falling commodity prices, Brazil left the global stage.
First, the veil of corruption in Afghanistan must be lifted.
The same corruption of purpose is causing the Canadian government to guarantee a new pipeline to export output from its polluting and expensive oil sands to Asia, while under-investing in Canada’s vast renewable energy sources.
WASHINGTON, DC – As corruption scandals rattle Latin America, many observers are asking if the region will ever shake off its legacy of weak institutions.
My optimism is based partly on the history of the United States, founded by leaders who were highly concerned about corruption; by some accounts, they devised the Constitution with the specific goal of vaccinating the new republic against vice.
The lesson of the US and other countries is that countries need three ingredients to combat corruption: a strong legal framework, committed leaders, and sustained public support.
The third ingredient – popular mobilization against corruption – has been the most difficult to obtain, as Latin Americans have historically tended to be tolerant of pilfering politicians.
Across Latin America, citizens are taking to the streets to say of corruption: ya basta (enough is enough).
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