Sentence examples for lost to corruption from inspiring English sources

We know great sums are lost to corruption".

The rest was lost to corruption, shoddy, half-built projects, and numbered bank accounts outside Chad.

There is no denying that some aid money is lost to corruption, poor programming and inefficiency.

An estimated $440bn was lost to corruption between 1960 and 1999.

Although the state of the economy remains difficult to ascertain beyond dubious official figures, huge sums are lost to corruption.

It is hard to know how much is lost to corruption and how much is simply lost.

And every year vast sums of this money are lost to fraud, corruption, overcharging, and under-delivery by private contractors.

The official answer is that donor funds are lost to Afghan corruption.

No question much is lost to the "corruption tax," but truth be told, you could cut every ounce of fat from the city budget and eliminate every act of corruption and you still wouldn't close the budget gap.

Public investments are often more dilapidated in poor countries with low quality of governance, and where large fractions of public investment spending are lost to bribery and corruption (Tanzi and Davoodi 1997).

Apparently, less than ten percent of that value went into state coffers - the rest was lost to high-level corruption involving senior officials closely tied to the think tank.