Sentence examples for high rates of corruption from inspiring English sources
In a new book, "The Double Paradox," the sinologist Andrew Wedeman examines a raft of data on arrests, bribes, and prosecutions not only in China but in other countries with high rates of corruption such as Zaire, Nicaragua, and Haiti — as well as places with high growth such as Korea and Taiwan.
Several recent academic studies confirm that countries whose economies are dependent on oil exports show exceptionally low living standards; exceptionally high rates of child mortality, malnutrition and income inequality; low rates of literacy and life expectancy; and unusually high rates of corruption, authoritarian government, military spending and civil war.
High rates of corruption by public officials didn't help either.
Former U.S. diplomats to countries with high rates of corruption and nepotism agree.
And along such perennially high rates of corruption ran an equally toxic combination of extreme poverty, unemployment, and inequality -- among the worst in the region.
Sarah Chayes, an expert in government corruption at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told HuffPost that it is no surprise that foreign governments with high rates of corruption are happy to put money in the president's pocket.
Maybe that is due to the closure of the oil pipeline that passes through Khartoum and the high rate of corruption in the Juba government.
But as a Gallup analysis found, "Decentralization may have resulted in smaller-scale corruption compared with the type so prevalent during the days of Suharto's rule, but the number of officials at the local level with their hands out likely results in higher rates of corruption and graft".
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East and its high rates of unemployment, corruption and malnutrition fuelled the popular uprising against the government four months ago.
When one starts from a relatively low base -- high rates of poverty, corruption, cronyism and political indifference -- it simply takes a clean, credible, and sincere leader such as Aquino himself to a) restore a measure of trust in state institutions and b) calm nervous markets.
