Today's youth will one day lead societies in various countries, build their economies, and make decisions that will have an impact in the lives of future generations. A series of international conferences have been devoted to various themes analyzing and highlighting the plight of war-affected children and the need to protect them from all forms of abuses. However, one area that has most often been overlooked and/or minimized in the agenda of these international conferences is one of the fundamental causes of some of these conflicts - the result of poor governance in affected countries.
Did you know?
In countries with high levels of corruption, the infant mortality rate is about three times higher and average income is about three times lower than in less corrupt countries (for example, the difference between Ukraine and the Czech Republic, Indonesia and South Korea, Nicaragua and El Salvador, or Chad and Namibia).
In high corruption countries, business would be willing to pay a tax equivalent to ten percent or more of their income to eliminate corruption.
Within a country, some government agencies are considered quite honest, while others are considered quite corrupt, often the customs authority, judiciary, or police.
Corruption tends to be more of a problem in developing and formerly communist countries than in high-income countries. Africa and the successor states to the Soviet Union are the regions considered to have the worst corruption problem.
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