Over the decades it has become known as the "bandit state" due to his high levels of crime, corruption and poverty.
But nationally the levels of crime and corruption, fuelled by the world's largest opium crops, have led to diminished enthusiasm for foreign forces.
With all the good intentions of improving the lives of Americans by eliminating the perceived source of corruption, crime and poverty, politicians outlawed the making, transporting and selling of alcohol.
Two things distinguished this, the longest-running Royal Commission in Australian history, from a succession of earlier inquiries into crime and corruption: modern technology, coupled with the tenacity of the man who presided over the commission.
The wholesale interdiction of narcotic drugs, too, has been responsible for an enormous amount of ancillary crime and corruption.
The argument here is similar to the one concerning drugs- legalisation would put a stop to much of the crime and corruption, but politicians fear a public backlash that would follow legalisation.
"We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree, and we wanted to stop it, " Fitzgerald said.
Tired of corruption and crime in the state, voters, with some help from a few honest bureaucrats, are starting to disown bad government.
And the United States, along with most aid donors, including the European Union and the World Bank, has noted what it has called worrying levels of corruption and crime.
Mr Anwar faces five charges of corruption and five of homosexual sex, a crime in Malaysia.
They would follow cases of political corruption and organised crime that the judicial system has been slow to tackle.
The purpose would be to outflank the opposition, which has accused her of concentrating on getting re-elected rather than solving problems such as a budget deficit that is out of control, corruption, crime and terrorism.
Its highlight has been some glossy television spots in which the candidate tells viewers of his dream of ending unemployment, corruption and crime.
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While Uefa could not, perhaps, have predicted the collapse of the Ukrainian economy, it certainly ought to have been well aware of the evidence of corruption and links to organised crime.
He also offered advice on his crime as Albany is embroiled in a new spate of corruption cases brought this month against lawmakers by a federal prosecutor.
Subsequently, a surge in violent crime, the slow pace of reconstruction, and the burgeoning corruption scandal at city hall undermined his popularity.
Since the 1980s, concerns have escalated about poverty and unemployment, charges of corruption in the government and high rates of crime.
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Corruption, serious crime, land theft and other usurpation of resources, nepotism, a lack of rule of law and exclusionary patronage networks afflict governance.
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That misguided policy has put millions of people behind bars, cost billions, encouraged crime and spread corruption while failing completely to reduce drug abuse.
This implies the need to deal with issues such as corruption, organized crime and an effective framework for the rule of law.
From 1986-1992, Spitzer was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, rising to become chief of its labor racketeering unit, where he prosecuted organized crime and political corruption cases.
Bulgaria remains one of the poorest countries in the EU, and corruption and organised crime is rife.
At this year's session, 20% to 30% of delegates refused to back the government's work reports on crime and corruption.
Challenges abound in Bogota with choking traffic, a daily influx of some 1, 500 displaced campesinos, massive corruption and rampant crime.
Countless people protect their assets in America because of corruption, expropriation, instability, persecution, discrimination, and crime in their home countries.
The reputations of Bo and Wang were largely built on a campaign against organized crime targeting thousands of wealthy businessmen in Chongqing that appealed to popular resentment towards widespread corruption.
He also promised measures to fight crime, including stiffer penalties for the illegal use of guns, and a war on corruption.
The Interpol general assembly endorsed making Internet crime a key priority, along with tackling the trafficking of women and stamping out police corruption.
Singapore's investigation of the officials comes weeks after the city-state's police said they were boosting efforts to tackle soccer corruption, following allegations from international investigators that a global crime ring was fixing hundreds of soccer matches out of its base in Singapore.
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