In January, the Russian military ministry, for example, doubled salaries in the nation's million-person army.
The environment ministry, for example, is mired in a bureaucratic tussle over raising vehicle emissions standards by next year.
The agriculture ministry, for example, is asking for less money for next year than it got this year.
In the offices of the immigration ministry, for example, not only visas but also sexual favours are for sale.
But she has also been clear over the years that owning the FT opened doors in places where the Pearson name would receive a shrug of non-recognition – the Chinese education ministry, for example.
The Ugandan education ministry, for example, has to keep 400 bank accounts simply to follow the auditing requirements of multiple donors.Ideally, Africans should devise their own solutions to their own problems.
The country's finance ministry, for example, has directed banks to step up safeguards to prevent money laundering, cut off loans to mob-related companies and deny bank accounts to individuals with known gangster ties.
Prior to 2008 no-one had looked at viral hepatitis, not least because the viruses that cause it are different, making messaging complex, and because they cut across many parts of a health ministry; for example immunisation, HIV, food and water safety, blood safety, injection safety and cancer.
