For some regimes, of course, crony capitalism, with a side order of repression, is the only dish on the menu.
The demonstrations in Cairo and the rest of Egypt against Hosni Mubarak's regime have, of course, dominated news coverage around the world in recent days.
Qaddafi's regime was, of course, built around this kind of violence, but that is a reason for extra wariness now, not for looking away.
I began to go out into the streets, in demonstrations against the regime, so of course I ended up in prison".
And yet a growing number of them are proving to be as capable of cruelty to their foes as the regime — which, of course, many of them fought for until just recently.
From a business point of view, you can start flying scientific payloads earlier in the testing regime, because of course they don't have quite the same safety requirements as people".
While it appears feasible in principle to design also here optimal policies, the possibility of regime switches of course complicates greatly the tasks for monetary and fiscal policy makers when designing and implementing their strategies.
Emeritus Professor Carlyle Thayer from the University of New South Wales in Australia says raising the profile of the 1974 conflict "has more to do with shoring up domestic legitimacy by undercutting the overseas Vietnamese supporters of the Saigon regime who, of course, memorialise this battle".
The persistent but constantly rotating cast of corrupt leaders and regimes has, of course, only exacerbated Africa's problems.
