Some 100,000 U.S.and NATO troops are currently in Afghanistan, but increasingly casualty figures and concerns about a growing Taliban threat and an ineffective and corrupt Afghan government have led to diminishing public support for the war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

And Mr.Karzai is now widely seen as presiding over a corrupt government, says analyst Nora Bensahel of the RAND Corporation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has come under strong international criticism in recent months for running a weak and corrupt central government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"That leaves Afghans in a limbo between a government, which is corrupt,and a Taliban that is extremely violent,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Rungsri says, Mr.Thaksin was a corrupt leader who bought the support of local people with cheap health care and low-interest village loans.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

This is a corrupt government in Kabul. This is various and sundry ways that we're trying to win the peoples' hearts that aren't working.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Still,he thinks the Red Shirts have thrown their lot in with a corrupt leadership.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Yuri Arkhipov of the independent Corruption Commission said some people in Russia's notoriously corrupt bureaucracy are interested in reforms, but they are hounded by a majority that abuses authority to make money.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

Ronald Noble is Interpol's Secretary General. "We agreed that we would create here in Cameroon, at our regional bureau, the first ever unit dedicated to tracing assets that were taken from a country in a corrupt fashion,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.09