Afghanistan has an elected government, but it is undermined by corruption and has difficulty delivering basic services to its people".
But opposing corruption has its difficulties, given Mr Malema's complicated and high-profile tax dispute, which he says may be resolved by bringing the row to court and releasing details of his finances to the public.
There are also political barriers, Hulme says, including the risk of western countries imposing their ideas of good governance on low-income countries, the challenges of overcoming corruption, and the difficulties in comparing what are bound to be varying interpretations of the goals by different countries.
Immense tensions, not least between the rage that corruption inspires and the difficulty of tackling it without a free press, exist.
It was an old-fashioned, Confucian system, often greased by corruption, that had great difficulty competing against the better organized and motivated Communists, despite the support of 500,000 American troops and billions of dollars in aid.
Hobbled by new spending restrictions passed by the opposition-controlled Legislative Assembly, and her administration's corruption scandals, she had difficulty passing her legislative initiatives.
Fifa's difficulties with corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process have led the International Olympic Committee to take preventative steps ahead of its 2018 Winter Olympic host-city decision in Durban.
Mr Saakashvili, who swept to the Georgian presidency after the "rose revolution" a year before Ukraine's "orange" one, imparted tips on how to govern after an upheaval and, perhaps inadvertently, how not to.Georgia and Ukraine share two characteristic post-Soviet difficulties: endemic corruption and Russian meddling.
Given the scope of corruption and all the difficulties associated with combatting the problem, the region's security services will unfortunately continue to be relegated to the role of firemen -- putting out fires, instead of preventing them.
Although personally honest with his own money matters, Grant had difficulty in spotting corruption in others.
