01092nam a22001337a 4500100001800000245008600018260007200104300000900176520063900185650002400824856009000848942000700938999001300945  aAtuobi, S. M.  aCorruption and State Instability in West Africa: An Examination of Policy Options  aGhanabKofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre c2007  a24p.  aThis 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.  aCorruption, Poverty  uiffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/9BD8A1F729CEB5B8C125746C0049D740-kaiptc-dec2007.pdf  cCF  c479d479