01093nam a22001337a 4500 Atuobi, S. M. Corruption and State Instability in West Africa: An Examination of Policy Options Ghana Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre 2007 24p. This is a paper about the existence of widespread corruption, especially in societies beset by mass poverty and very high levels of unemployment, has a deeply corrosive effect on trust in government and contributes to crime and political disorder. Since their inception, West African states have been facing corruption as a major problem. In some cases, it has attained levels of gross and egregious theft, for which no possible moral or historical justification can be advanced, and which has played a major role, both in the impoverishment of the region as a whole and specifically in the alienation of its people from their rulers. Corruption, Poverty iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/9BD8A1F729CEB5B8C125746C0049D740-kaiptc-dec2007.pdf CF 479 479