Sentence examples for corruption amounts from inspiring English sources

The head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee says corruption amounts to $300 billion annually.

Corruption amounts to a dirty tax, and the poor and most vulnerable are its primary victims.All of this has got Cassandra pondering an article in The World in 2013 listing where it will be best to be born in 2013.

The report said the scale of fraud and corruption amounted to serious criminality.

The Swiss-born football supremo, who was re-elected to office for a fifth term on Friday despite the clamour following the arrest of officials for alleged corruption amounting to $150m, has complained that he had been shown "zero respect" in recent days.

Their study considers as a measure of corruption the amount of in-kind transfers lost in 2 days under the watch of local leaders, and uses it to create an index of leaders showing the most and least corrupt.

The idea that it's childish to balk at Afghan corruption — that it amounts to holding out for a magical nanny — is tiresome.

Whilst the mounting skepticism surrounding corruption prevents large amounts of financial aid from getting through, concerns are also growing that larger NGOs are flitting away money on unnecessary luxuries such as SUVs and plush hotels.

Corruption increases the total amount of pollution because the government accepts political donations in exchange for the extra issuance of permits.

In addition, we identify a set of determinants that impact on the government's decisions to improve economic institutions, particularly, the structure and intensity of the initial corruption level, the amount of distortions caused by taxation and the policymaker's goals and preferences across its objectives.

In particular, we want to further adapt the choice of the sparsity level and the dictionary size to the level of corruption and the amount of training data, which we expect to improve the performance of the ITKrMM algorithm for image inpainting both in terms of speed and accuracy.

The first is corruption, which wastes vast amounts of public money, including aid from foreign governments.