Pervasive corruption, for example, can have devastating effects in health, education, and economic reforms.
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IR You highlight the pervasive corruption and theft of public funds by Africa's leaders, whether military or civilian.
Even so, I believe the awareness created about the pervasive corruption in the oil sector made a difference.
The pervasive corruption in Turkey has imposed not only a moral cost but a heavy economic one too.
It was his best chance to deter the pervasive corruption of Wall Street.
But business executives burned by state interference or pervasive corruption in Russia argue that things aren't as good as they look.
The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption often result in builders adding unauthorized floors or putting up illegal buildings.
The pervasive corruption of the state and the lawlessness of the police restrict the ability of the Kremlin to influence much beyond the appointment of governors or envoys.
Yet the really important changes, the ones that will modernise Mexico's institutions, reduce its inequalities and social problems, and neutralise its pervasive corruption, will take a long time to bring about.
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Leaving aside such disincentives as pervasive corruption, maddening bureaucracy and organised crime, there is the question whether the government's plans for the labour market will do enough to stimulate the growth Italy has so woefully failed to generate.
So pervasive is corruption in China that it would be hard to find any leader whose associates and family members are beyond suspicion.
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India has recently been hit by a string of high-profile corruption scandals which critics say is evidence of a pervasive culture of corruption in Mr Singh's administration.
Critics of the government say that recent scandals point to a pervasive culture of corruption in Mr Singh's administration - adding to the difficulties of a politician once seen as India's most honest.
Fogel should also have mentioned something about the ingrained corruption, pervasive plagiarism and creativity-stifling curricula that are the hallmarks of Chinese schooling.
The first is that corruption is pervasive at every level of society and is not a trivial complaint like the common cold, but a cancer.
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Corruption is pervasive, as is the brutality of the security services.
Corruption remains pervasive at all levels of society.
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So pervasive and debilitating is the corruption in Bangladesh's public life that the army's drive is still popular.
And so it goes: evidence to some that France is belatedly putting its house in order, while others cynically shrug their shoulders, arguing that corruption is so pervasive that eventual punishments will have to be as in Italy few and slight, lest the whole elite be swept away.
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Such corruption has become so pervasive, that movements from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street sprang to protest a perverted system.
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Banks are in private hands, a good number of state monoliths have been closed or revamped, corruption may be less pervasive than it was in the earlier post-communist period.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has warned that political corruption had become "downright pervasive" in the state.
Businessmen in Moscow say that, far from Mr Putin's new order helping to squeeze out corruption, it is now more pervasive than in the worst of the Yeltsin years.
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However, the sins attributed to capitalism corruption, fraud and greed, to name but three are not only pervasive in systems where the state controls production, but far more damaging and far less likely to be rectified.
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