Social benefits could be paid directly into recipients' bank accounts rather than as subsidised fuel and food that is too easily stolen by crooked officials.

社会福利会直接支付到接受者的银行账户，而非作为燃料或食物补贴发放，后者很容易被不端的官员窃取。

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Cardholders can quickly call their bank and reject crooked transactions.

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Sacking crooked-seeming officials has, for the World Bank, become a precondition for resuming lending.

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