Syria's economic and political woes are similar to those lamented by protesters around the region: corruption, an exaggerated security presence, soaring prices and a lack of prospects for the country's burgeoning, and increasingly globally connected, youth.
Here are some excerpts: ALBANIA "Organized criminal gangs are endemic to all regions, and corruption is pervasive".
We are also a more honest and transparent society, and boxing has always dwelled in the nether regions of corruption and organized crime".
Inflation, even before the recent spike in food and fuel prices, has been a persistent problem throughout the region, and corruption is endemic.
Georgia -- a nation cracked open by three breakaway regions, racked by corruption and a tsunami of crime, reeling from two civil wars, pocked by constant electricity and water shortages and unable to collect taxes from its citizens -- was his to govern.
The disease has also revealed alarming mistrust between citizens and public office holders in a region with shocking corruption levels.
Legalising it, he says, would fill state coffers, bring tourists to the neglected region and reduce corruption.
Sister Dorothy was shot while visiting a remote encampment near the Trans-Amazon Highway in Pará, in a region known for corruption and land violence.
One of the region's biggest corruption cases involved Shenyang's then mayor, Mu Suixin, who was noticed by a Hong Kong reporter wearing an expensive imported watch that was far beyond what he should have been able to afford on a mayor's salary.
Other research from the region confirms that corruption in the health care sector, with public sector hospitals commonly devoid of basic and life-saving medicines and medical equipment, is responsible for both shortages and high rates of mortality [ 56].
