Given this, one might ask how China managed to achieve such impressive growth over the last 20 years, despite rampant corruption. The answer probably lies in its selectocracy.

The critics point to the 500 billion dollars spent in Africa since 1970 and say, and what do we have but environmental degradation and incredible levels of poverty, rampant corruption?

At TED, brilliance is rampant.

Indeed, the fight against corruption is at war with itself, because Xi is simultaneously seeking to buttress one party rule. But it is precisely the absence of effective checks on the exercise of power that encourages and sustains rampant corruption in the first place.

The selling of girls is rampant across the planet.

This kind of indirect speech is rampant in language.

I wonder how rampant baby snatching is out of hospitals.

Rampant insecurity seems to be the order of the day.

One agency where large scale graft and corruption was traditionally rampant was the Department of Public Works and Highways. By instituting open, competitive, and transparent bidding, the department has saved 2.5 billion pesos from 3,692 projects nationwide in the past year.

In Indonesia, the rampant smuggling of illegal timber caused massive ecological destruction.

Massive fraud is rampant in the gold and tin sector for various reasons.

Until brought to a level where they can compete in international tournaments beyond Africa, women s soccer teams will continue to struggle. And, considering the rampant corruption that plagues our continent, it might take a century to see male soccer teams managed and funded sufficiently.

As demand for land and land prices increased, corruption became rampant, with some politicians, industrialists, and bureaucrats using the lack of transparency in land ownership and zoning to misappropriate assets. India s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.

Rampant sexual and gender based violence remain a reality in a number of contexts.

The Communist Party must keep the Chinese economy growing (even if more slowly), while fighting rampant corruption and responding to citizens demands. Chinese citizens cannot vote, but they can and do make their displeasure known, which places a premium on what Chinese bureaucrats call stability maintenance.

This lack of progress is truly remarkable, given that Iraq s annual budgets for the last five years have totaled nearly 500 billion. Incompetence and corruption are rampant Iraq routinely scores among the bottom ten countries in Transparency International s list of the most corrupt countries in the world.

But the greatest obstacle that must be confronted if Russia is to wage war on terror effectively is the rampant corruption in the security forces. It is well known, for example, that Basaev's fanatical killers paid off Russian militia to enter Budeonovsk in 1995 and kill hospital patients.

There are significant political risks related to the overlapping political and business interests of the region s entrenched ruling elites, presenting headaches for investors concerned about their reputations. Corruption is rampant, and most companies are often forced to work with government picked partners, over whom control is severely limited.

In the Islamic Republic, those interested in opening up to the West are typically those with little authority. Ahmadinejad and his faction face a two edged problem Khamenei has boxed them in politically, while rampant economic corruption and failed efforts at reform have disillusioned many of the president s supporters.

Several witnesses used the words ethnic cleansing and rampant expulsions of Palestinians to describe the situation.

The Chinese option economic rights and prosperity in exchange for public quiescence is not feasible, owing to these regimes ineptness and rampant corruption. As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

The dangers of a rampant drug trade in Afghanistan are not limited to the likely financing of the Taliban.

Qadri issued a 20 day ultimatum to the government in Islamabad to purge the political system of rampant corruption, reconstitute the Election Commission, and appoint a caretaker administration to oversee the upcoming vote. The caretakers, he said, should include technocrats, retired military officers, and judges and could remain in office longer than the constitutionally permitted 90 days.

That is that people talk about corruption, corruption.

If you actually didn't realize that plants have sex, they have rampant, promiscuous and really quite interesting and curious sex. Really.

At the same time, economic reforms faltered, and poor management was rampant, contributing to the continued deterioration of the people's living conditions.

Corruption.

Iraq s government is demanding a withdrawal timetable from the US, not because it believes that Iraqi forces will be ready to take over soon, but to burnish its nationalist credentials ahead of next year s parliamentary elections. Thus, it hopes to divert public attention from still non existent basic services, continuing sectarianism, weak oil production, scant infrastructure investment, and rampant corruption and cronyism.

At that time, I noticed that corruption, that grand corruption, that systematic corruption, was undermining everything we were trying to do.

Verena Blechinger, Sectoral Perspectives on Corruption, Corruption and Political Parties , November 2002.

Police corruption.

The most urgent challenge facing the new government is rampant lawlessness and anarchy throughout Palestinian society. Murder, kidnapping, and extortion have reached record heights.

Every day, all of us here, we're building gods that have gone rampant, and it's time we started knocking them down and forgetting their names.

The Taliban are gaining military and political strength, and President Hamid Karzai is losing support at home and internationally due to his administration s rampant corruption and the obvious fraud committed in his re election. Weariness with the war is spreading in the United States, where President Barack Obama finds it difficult to decide about an increase in troops, as demanded by his own generals.

Criminalization of corruption

Measures against corruption

(h) Combating corruption

Getting Corruption Right

Who Beats Corruption?

And multiplied corruption.

And multiplied corruption.

CORRUPTION HOW EFFECTIVE?

(a) Combating corruption

It highlighted the universality of the phenomenon of corruption and explored some general and specific manifestation of corruption, including cases of corruption in the private sector.