Although there are undoubtedly specific countries where specific resources have eroded institutions or torn countries apart in civil strife, we find this is not the general pattern.
They are also dealing with social problems that always follow economic loss, such as families broken apart, children struggling with little support, eroded institutions, and substance abuse – a quick salve to either forget or numb the pain.
At the same time, it's a country that has been in economic decline for decades due to an extremely complex socio-political dynamic that has eroded institutions and fostered bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption.
It also began eroding institutions, most notably replacing four members of the Supreme Court with right-wing National Party partisans.
2017 has been labeled the year of 'trust in crisis' with eroding trust in all prominent institutions from media to NGOs and businesses.
Party insiders and political analysts worry that the split could paralyze the government, deepen social problems and erode democratic institutions.
Culture was valued because it created the appearance of social inclusion, even while government continued to erode those institutions that actually assure this – education and healthcare.
The police also detained Chandra Muzaffar, president of Aliran, the country's most active public interest and human rights lobby, and a persisitent critic of what he saw as the Mahathir Government's moves to erode political institutions.
Conflicts also erode governance institutions, weaken public expenditure management systems, and increase transaction costs (Anand 2005; Fengler et al. 2008).
Boris Stern of the RAS Institute for Nuclear Research, who on 26 July revealed the terms of the deal in the scientific opposition newspaper Troitsky Variant, believes that the agreement will erode the institutions' independence and that the funding windfall Kravchuk envisions is a pipe dream.
