But longevity can breed bad habits, such as complacency and even corruption.
NGOs are human organisations, too, with all the scope for laziness, inefficiency and even corruption that any group of people risks falling into if it lacks either self-discipline or external scrutiny.
And even if corruption could one day be cut to, say, Turkish levels, Georgia would still face formidable problems.
"When anything unexpected happens in Russian football there are allegations of conspiracy and corruption because, even as President Medvedev admitted, the country is blighted by corruption, " said Bennetts.
Six years after the riots, another scandal exposed more corruption and even deeper cover-ups, implicating members of an elite anti-gang unit at the LAPD's Rampart division, home to some of the city's most vicious gangs.
Closer to home, the next pope has a major challenge awaiting him inside the Vatican walls, after the leaks of papal documents in 2012 exposed ugly turf battles, allegations of corruption and even a plot purportedly orchestrated by Benedict's aides to out a prominent Italian Catholic editor as gay.
The Constitutional Court, National Counter Corruption Commission and even the Senate have been taken over by his cronies.
"We have an incredibly strained police force that's not particularly well-trained -- they're massively overloaded -- and we're struggling with issues of corruption within the police force and possibly even within the prosecution service, " he said.
For all the party's tough words on corruption, and occasional high profile sentencing and even executions, in the minds of many officials the potential gains from corruption still far outweigh the risks.
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Roubini and Aon said China corruption is even worse than in India.
Many see him as an almost demonic figure, single-handedly responsible for bringing hardship to the people and letting corruption overtake the country even as he cynically pressed almost every panic button, including one labelled xenophobia, in the Czechs' psychology.
Meanwhile, the rural employment guarantee has distorted the labor market and bred corruption at the grassroots, even as few durable assets are created.
Congress has the right to regulate the conduct of elections and protect the process against even the appearance of corruption.
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Mr Cavallo, a loud campaigner against corruption even before and much more after he lost his cabinet job in July 1996, has repeatedly claimed that Mr Kohan knew of the illegal dealings.
If you support the Kool-Aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, tortured corpses, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, economic tribulation, unemployment and the complete loss of the rule of law.
Yet even with the threat of execution and arrest, corruption still remains endemic and the government seems to make little headway.
Zyazikov promptly proceeded to install a regime of unprecedented, even by Soviet standards, corruption, nepotism and repression.
Large amounts of food aid might even make things worse, by encouraging corruption and weakening Russia's own food industry still further.
But the changes could go in the other direction: back to Chernomyrdin-style governance, with (even more) rampant corruption, state meddling and red-hot printing presses at the central bank.
The latest allegations -- making headlines across all Spanish media -- came as corruption scandals, affecting several political parties and even the royal household, have rocked the nation during its deep economic crisis, with a recession and an unemployment rate of 26%.
Spruill knows her mother worked as a prostitute and even got caught up in the 1980 high-profile corruption scandal surrounding James Barbuto, a probate judge who was convicted of intimidating investigators and gross sexual imposition for attacking a courthouse clerk in his chambers.
It has basic freedoms and a large private sector, even if it is stifled by corruption.
And says Lula deserves credit for allowing federal police to even investigate corruption.
His advisers insist, perhaps implausibly, that they can match the FSLN's spending programmes even without Venezuelan aid, by cutting out corruption and inefficiency.
Some worry bureaucratic infighting and Indonesia's reputation for corruption will delay projects even further.
Nor is it easy to persuade cynics that corruption can be reduced, even though Hong Kong and Singapore are living examples.
Russian journalists run the risk of attack and even murder if they delve too deeply into sensitive subjects such as corruption, organised crime or rights abuses.
It said that there were indications of corruption, kidnapping, drug abuse, child abuse and even murder by police operating "under the noses" of allied forces in the Sangin area.
Despite allegations of corruption in officials, the bias is likely unconscious and perhaps even involuntary.
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