In 2011 Rwanda continued rapid realization of Millennium Development Goals in facilitating state building, alleviating poverty, diminishing corruption, and improving health and education.
The United States encouraged other O.E.C.D. countries to adopt legislation similar to its own law as it became clear that however helpful it was in diminishing corruption in other countries, it was putting American companies at a disadvantage.
The immediate challenge was to develop a program for maximizing Ghana's coming oil and gas wealth in order to raise general living standards, promote education, and expand industry, as well as to diminish corruption.
Both ran for their mayoral positions on a very populist agenda: diminishing corruption, fighting against the party establishment, and speaking for the people.
Straightforward theft of public funds has diminished, but corruption has not.
Mr. Ebrahim says future payments in Bahrain by regional governments will be diminished by corruption and may not reach the people who need them.
Less aid will force local governments to be accountable and diminish corruption.
But this hardly diminishes the corruption.
Moreover, her impeachment may not restore public confidence in Brazil's leaders, or diminish the corruption that pervades the country's politics.
One possible explanation of this phenomenon is that, in addition to their own experience, people may need repeated confirmation from others that the practice of corruption has diminished before their opinions about corruption are likely to change.
Over time, corruption diminished and the justification for the transfers weakened, particularly given that frequent transfers undermined administrator effectiveness.
